Ken Blanchard Quotes
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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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.
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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.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
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Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties.
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I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.
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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.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
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You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
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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.
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
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It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.
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Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
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Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
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You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.
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In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
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Grunge came from a group of English photographers, and they were documenting their own reality... I'm South American - we celebrate life.
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I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.
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Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
