Chuck D Quotes

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

All negative things you can turn positive, and for me, that is key.

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

In this life, I'm always going to choose the positive.

Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

At times, I'm thinking negatively, thinking that we don't learn from our mistakes, but then I get more positive-minded. I do believe in the good of humanity.

Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.

I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.

There's just as much positivity as there is negativity, but for some reason, people focus on the negative things. And I used to be that person, but I'm not that person anymore.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.

With every positive, there is a negative across the board in life. It's about choosing to see the positive and working with the negative.

I think it's important to try to find the positives. Then, look at the things that you don't like and see if you can change them or not.

Don't focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.

In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.

It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.

I don't believe in pessimism.