Barbara Ehrenreich - Positive Quotes

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There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

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In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommended. You may try to project a thoroughly positive outlook in order to attract a potential boyfriend, but you are also advised to Google him.

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It's a glorious universe the positive thinkers have come up with, a vast, shimmering aurora borealis in which desires mingle freely with their realizations.... Dreams go out and fulfill themselves; wishes need only to be articulated.

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When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

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How can we expect to improve our situation without addressing the actual circumstances we find ourselves in? Positive thinking seeks to convince us that such external factors are incidental compared with one's internal state or attitude or mood.

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A whole industry has grown up to promote positive thinking, and the product of this industry, available at a wide range of prices, is called motivation.

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People who just pretend to have a positive attitude may be more acceptable, but they will still attract according to how they are really vibrating- the energy they are emanating will attract their circumstances.

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We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.

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I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint.... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory'...

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