Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes

Making someone laugh is the simplest, most basic positive human connection.

Nell Scovell

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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Strong
  • Wonder
  • Positive

• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Effort

• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Connection

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • People
  • Think
  • Positive

• I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Know
  • Always
  • Positive

• Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Positive
  • Motivated

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Positive
  • Child
  • Independent

• Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Bad
  • Positive
  • Try

• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Work
  • Women
  • Girl

• While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Long
  • Community
  • Nice

• The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • World
  • American
  • Government

• When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Connection

• I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Life
  • Positive

• Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

  

  Jermaine Jackson The Jacksons
  • Children
  • Joy
  • Connection

• When you learn how to be really attentive, you learn the importance of patience and appreciating a woman. You're able to appreciate the softness of her skin and the look in her eyes. It's a connection.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • Eyes
  • Connection
  • Patience

• When I came on the scene, there was The Nualas, who were doing character comedy, but there weren't any other women doing stand-up because Michelle Read had gone more into theatre.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Up
  • Women
  • Character

• It's awesome that you have a female CFO and a female GC, but if you look at the investing partners, and it's 15 dudes, I do think those people are going to get left behind if they don't get with where the world is going.

  

  Aileen Lee
  • People
  • World
  • Awesome

• Making someone laugh is the simplest, most basic positive human connection.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Positive
  • Connection