Famous Quotes

"My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative."

Alexander McCall Smith on Positive

More quotes about Positive

• "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Positive

• "I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other."

  Harvey Fierstein on Positive

• "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

  Willie Nelson on Positive

• "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

  Zig Ziglar on Positive

• "If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

  John Wooden on Positive

More quotes by Alexander McCall Smith

• "Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age."

• "I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds."

• "My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world."

• "It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others."

• "But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them."