Positives Quotations

I have to take the positives from 2012 and the negatives as well because you learn more than you do from the positives. It has been a great season last year, a lot of learning, and now it's another approach. The way I will approach this year is totally different, so we are ready to fight for it.

There are positives to moving around and changing companies: you put things in perspective; you can compare living and working conditions. Living in one city, you tend to take things for granted; your view is much more narrow. In Europe, a dancer can leave for a year and still keep her original contract.

I always try to find the positives in losing a match, but it's not always easy.

Obviously there are positives to working in the epicenter of innovation. But there are also disadvantages. There is a groupthink mentality that goes on. Being based outside of Silicon Valley, you're not as subject to it.

I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

I'd say the best way to train someone is to remember that you have two ears and one mouth, and use them in that ratio. That's hard to do, and ultimately what we've learned is how many false positives you get from listening to what someone says they're going to do instead of observing what they actually do.

I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

One of the few positives is that it wasn't more serious than it was.

One of the real positives for us throughout the tournament so far is that we've been able to go 10 deep. We used different combinations, and different opportunities presented themselves.

One of the positives is you would anticipate that it might be more of a spark for the offense,

I was remarkably calm all day long. I think that is where the experience factor came in. I knew what this win could mean and what could happen if I won. If you aren't thinking about that and taking the positives out of every week, you may be out here for all the wrong reasons.

I wouldn't say that the problems with the old test cast doubt on all positives under it.

Of course, the positives for consumers were considerable.

Obviously, we're taking away a lot of positives for the season. We've got a national scoring leader, conference player of the year and we're one of the top scoring teams in the nation. I think we're seeing a constant improvement in this team. The way the season ended doesn't diminish what the accomplishments were this year.

Obviously it's very disappointing to have lost that race but we can take a lot of positives out of it still,

No positives at all. We did some good things, but the losses cover over everything so guys just keep grinding, keep working for next year.

We made a few critical mistakes, but we never gave up. No disrespect to Shepherd Hill, but our kids know our league schedule begins with Hudson. You never want to walk away with a loss, especially on opening night, but we'll find some positives in this one.

Since senior night, the team has started enjoying playing more, starting to look more at the positives that we're doing, and not as much on the negatives. We all (have) got the mindset that is was crunch time, and right now we're rolling with it.

Jacob plays at such a high energy level. I've rarely seen a freshman with that much passion. He'll bounce back, as will (the team). There were a lot of positives in this game. I'm disappointed with the loss, but pleased with the effort given by everyone.

You have to find some positives in everything and twice we came from one goal down so that is the positive spin. We know that we should have taken all three points so we just have to keep getting better and stay positive.

Fourth row is obviously not where we want to be, but one of the positives that has come out of it is that we are nearly one and a half seconds quicker than we were last year ? so that shows the improvements made to the bike.

But it will probably speed up play in a lot of these tournaments. A lot of positives can come out of it, so the positives probably outweigh the negatives.

To come back in the third period, earn a point and clinch a playoff spot . . . there's some positives from tonight but it never feels good losing. They were a very hungry, very determined team tonight but we knew they would be.

We've got to take the positives out of winning two out of three in this series and move on against a good Milwaukee team.

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

I am focused on the positives - Super 14 provides the opportunity to look at more players than we have in the past with greater competition for places.

His positives outweigh negatives (in different groups surveyed) by multiples of two, three, four, even five to one.

Hopefully we can carry what we did in the last inning to (today). It was a terrible day of baseball for us. Hopefully we can find some positives and come out and get a couple of wins (today).

He's going through that natural period where people want to nitpick the very few negatives he may have instead of extolling all his positives, ... And in a little over 31 minutes a game he averages 18 and 8. He comes to work every day. He's totally selfless. Yet some want to badger the guy about whatever perceived shortcomings he has. I find that unfortunate because if they spent half the time looking at all his positives it would be a much better story.

He drove it so good it was a joke. He played solid. He should take a lot of positives from it. John should take a lot out of this week. He played well.

We took some positives from the season. We got better as the season went on and the guys hung in and didn't quit, no matter what happened.

We took some positives out of that game and we can't wait to get into Game 2.

I want to try and win more tournaments, so I feel like I have let this one slip a little bit to be honest. But it is still a good finish, I have to take the positives out of it. It is another top-three finish.

Look at their successes -- there are more positives to being a Colts fan than people may feel right now.

Really, that's the best we've played in the red area all year long. We made a couple of stops after a sudden change, after we turned the ball over offensively. We came in there and didn't let them score a touchdown. We held them, based on the field position that we had, so, I mean, there were some positives to build on.

Playing .500 for the first week of the season on the road. I think we can take a lot of positives out of that. I think our team chemistry is really good. We have a lot of energy.

I saw a lot of positives tonight on the floor for us as we fought hard against a seasoned Big South basketball program. We are very young and they are the most experienced team in our league. I give them all the credit tonight as they deserved to win.

I saw so many positives out there tonight. And Louisburg is a good ball club, and I think we are a good ball club. The atmosphere was great and the stadium is great, but my focus was on the kids. We are going to see it on tape, and we'll get it fixed.

Lange has that ?home? feeling. I know the teachers; I know the community; I know the parents. I?m excited to get the chance to go back and contribute positives to the great school.

Management did all they could to confirm the positives that are to come, and the market seems to be accepting that.

I think they're doing a great job all the way across the board. I think there are a lot of positives in the way the team has played. Nick has done a great job after that Cleveland game, whatever he's done in bringing them together. They're playing well.

It didn't meet all our ears that well because we were writing a new record and had great material and we knew it would take time away from that, but it's been so many positives that we are glad we did it.

I thought I was mentally tough before, but this made me even tougher, and pro hockey is going to be even tougher than this. Now I know that no matter how bad a season is, you have to stay strong. You have to find the positives out of anything.

I think there were some real positives to take away from this. For the most part our guys competed well.

I think, as first games go, we had our good moments and we obviously had our moments where we can obviously be better. The positives are that we got the first goal and also that we got the go-ahead goal at 2-1. The negatives are that we gave up a couple of goals that I thought could have been prevented and let them back in it.

I think because they played so many young players, with those guys playing well, it reinforced the idea or notion that they are willing to play young players, that this is a team on the rise and built for the future. Those are some great positives to sell to recruits.

Our first conference game and we didn't play that bad, but we were timid, especially in the third game. I saw positives throughout the match. Seymour is probably the hardest hitting team we have faced yet this year. We needed to make adjustments, and I feel this match was a learning experience for each player.

I think I'm a better pitcher than 49-50. I was just battling to find out who I was and where I was and get him back here as quick as I could. At times I've shown that, last year I ran off seven in a row but then I ended on a bad note, but take the positives from anything.

I still feel that our team was the best team at Center Grove. It's still pretty hard to get over. But we had a lot of positives this season. We felt we let one slip away, but I couldn't have had a better group of kids. They were fun to be around and fun to coach. I couldn't ask for anything more from them. It just didn't happen for us this year.

Kelly and Jena bring with them so many positives for our soccer program. They're talented soccer players with good experience. They will be ready to contribute right away. They fill needs for our team. They demonstrate great teamwork. They are positive people. And, in due time, they will be good leaders.

I think the key after playing such a hard weekend with not too many positives is to get on a winning streak. We're bringing in probably one of the best Division II teams, but most of (Tuesday's) practice will be working on things we need: Swinging at strikes and throwing strikes. It's a simple game and we kind of let that get away from us.

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

It is a good move for him. I hate to say that because I hate to lose him. But Clint has to do what is best for his family. There are positives here too; but I think this is a great opportunity for him.

I think we noticed it really right off that it wasn't going to work. We kept seeing some positives but there were more negatives. But the biggest thing is when you make a decision, you have to stand by it and see how it plays out.

I thought there were a lot of positives out there. I think we're much improved over last year, but we're disappointed not to have come away with a win in our home opener.

I thought we made some more progress Friday. We've still got a ways to go to get where we want to be but there were many positives to build on, both offensively and defensively.

Traveling comes with its positives and its negatives. I think we are more focused when we travel. It allows the girls to get away from their everyday lives.

You know, when you look at the final scoreboard, you might not see that, ... If you watched the game and you felt the game, our guys made some strides. I am not happy and I am not satisfied with the loss, but we are going to go back to work and correct the mistakes, accentuate the positives and build off those.

You know, when you look at the final scoreboard, you might not see that. If you watched the game and you felt the game, our guys made some strides. I am not happy and I am not satisfied with the loss, but we are going to go back to work and correct the mistakes, accentuate the positives and build off those.

We don't have the luxury of being far enough ahead in the playoff race to be able to find positives when we don't win. The results overwhelm everything else.

That's been part of it, ... but he's still pitched very well. You look at what he's done and what he's been through and I think there have been some pretty good positives there. Getting through this year healthy would be a huge benefit.

We get a lot of false positives and we need to reduce the number.

We needed some positives and confidence heading back into conference play after the break, and we got it tonight. The girls played really hard and I'm proud of them.

We have not had any positives for milkshakes at this time.

(Miami) is a university where you can go win a national championship. Certainly any coach would be attracted to that. There are an awful lot of positives there. I think I'm a legitimate candidate. It would be a very, very attractive job to me.

You always look at the positives and try and build on it and there were a lot of positives from this series for us.

We have to take whatever positives there are away from this series. We have to keep battling. After losing that first game we kept fighting in game two. We kept coming back. We put ourselves in a situation to win it. We just have to go out and get it done. We have to do the same things we were doing that got us to the point before we started to struggle.

We have a lot of good, young players at USA Hockey and a lot of guys coming. We can take the positives out of this game and out of the whole tournament.

We've had eight days, so we've got a big transition. I see more positives than negatives, but we have a lot of things we have to get better at quick.

We had a lot of positives out there. It's a solid foundation to build on.

We had a lot of positives this year, but this is no longer acceptable.

We had more positives than any game this season. We're very, very close, but the huge negative is the 'L'.

We really were just a couple of plays away from turning that thing around. It wasn't like we played bad at all. I think we were in that game until the end of the fourth quarter. But for the most part we had a lot of positives and a little minor errors we can correct. There's no time better than when we play our division rivals this weekend to get it done.

We're almost starting back at square one, in some respects. But there can be a lot of positives with a young team. Look at the men's team (that made the NCAA Frozen Four). They had 13 freshmen.

We evaluated the positives and negatives when making that deal, knowing that the individual involved may or may not be playing in the league this year. We didn't want to take that direction.

What we did for the last 40 minutes was a good sign. There were a couple of breakdowns early and that got us in a hole. But we have a lot of positives to get us on track.

There are some positives to this. It is creating problems for the other team, too. So we have hung with it. It gets us by. I am not making any videos on it, I will tell you that.

There are positives and negatives. But if I had to do that over again, I would.

We're approaching the use of biometrics very, very cautiously, ... We feel that the technology is not even close to the accuracy being claimed by some of these companies. As such, there will be thousands of false negatives and false positives when you scale up the millions of travelers.

We're gonna keep at it. It's another one that's disappointing, but there were positives that came out of it, like that stretch of (five) minutes where we outscored them 13-0. That's promising.

We're growing, we've prospered and all we needed was just a chance. The old image of Oklahoma City being a minor-league city is outdated. We've always been a great place to live with low-cost housing, virtually no traffic congestion, fresh water and clear air. But we've never been perceived as a great place to vacation. All our positives started to mushroom up in the last 18 months.

We didn't quit and that's important. We are looking for a lot of positives right now. We've got to stay focused and positive and those were definitely positive signs.

We had a good chance to win. We don't take any positives from this, even though we came close against a good team.

We practice that situation, but it's so hard to (simulate) the pandemonium on the sideline and the crowd. But we have some positives to take away from all of this.

We probably relied a little too much on the threes. But even when we got close in, we had some shots rim out. We still take a lot of positives knowing that we got outscored 15-1 in the second quarter and the final (deficit) was 15.

We played a pretty clean game against a veteran, skilled team that's been at this a lot longer than we have. You can draw a lot of positives from that.

We played a pretty decent game and to lose like that at the end is tough. But we got a point. Look at the positives and make sure we stay focused on the right things and move forward from this.

We start fresh next year, but hopefully some of the positives from this year will carry over.

We battled hard - there's too many positives out of this game to get down.

There are a lot of positives -- Intel said some good things; Greenspan is saying that oil prices are a wild card, which we knew already, but that inflation is under control. But we're mixed, bouncing around today (Wednesday). You've got big names coming out in the next day and you need some of these giants to say tech is improving.

There are a lot of positives that came out of the last two weeks.

There are a lot of positives that have happened that make our club better than it was in February.

There are a lot of positives we can take away from this one. We really played well.

We're two down, but are taking a lot of positives from these matches.

We learned a lot about ourselves today. There were a lot of positives that came out of today, and we gained knowledge on the areas in which we need to improve. We focused primarily on our offense and moving the ball. We need to organize the defense to be more effective.

We have been beaten two-nil in this Test series but a lot of positives have come out. We had not competed over five days which cost us, but we had India on the ropes in all three Tests, though the first one was rain-affected. We had not been thrashed.

We can't afford to start like that in a final, but the positives we can take out of it is the way we managed to get back in the game and in the end we were in a position to win it.

We will focus on the positives we had tonight and continue to get after it in practice. If the effort is there, the sky is the limit for this team. I've been preaching that from day one. I think they realize now that hard work - in practice and in games - wins basketball games.