"While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future."

-- John Podhoretz

#Ideas Quotes #Negativity Quotes #Demoralizing Quotes

“The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up.”
“Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.”
“Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.”
“Jumping for joy' is a very basic human reaction, and a child skipping down the street is simply an untrained dancer.”
“It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.”
“I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.”

Source : "Factbox: Quotes from '60 Minutes' commentator Andy Rooney". Compiled by Bill Trott, www.reuters.com. November 05, 2011.
“Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.”

Source : S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.66, Penguin
“Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. - Diane Arbus By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.”

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