If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.

A positive atmosphere nurtures a positive attitude, which is required to take positive action.

Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.

I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.

Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.

I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don't pay attention to anything unless it's positive.

I retire from competition with great pride at having had a positive impact on my sport. I intend to keep training and practicing martial arts for as long as I live, and I look forward to watching the new generation of champions carry our sport into the future.

Growing up, whatever team I was on, I was always a leader. It was more so in terms of giving guys confidence, telling them, 'Yo, just be yourself.' You don't have to overthink it. Just positive reinforcement, positive reinforcement.

Even failures can turn into something positive if you just keep going. I wrote a television pilot called 'Head of the Family.' CBS didn't want it. It was considered a failure. But we reworked it. A year later, it became 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.