A Quote by Srikumar Rao

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

Srikumar Rao

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Srikumar Rao
Indian - Educator
Born: April 11, 1951

There was a period when I had apple pie as a treat every day of the week. I mean, like, a family apple pie.

Malachi Kirby

I'm more American than apple pie. I'm like apple pie, with a hot dog in it.

Stephen Colbert

As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the flag.

Pete Gallego

There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.

Frankie Shaw

I love pie. Definitely apple pie, but sweet potato pie - really any pie.

Tyler Herro

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

George Will

Truth, justice...I always thought they were absolutes, like God. And Mom. And apple pie. But you could make apple pie from Ritz crackers. You could make cakes without sugar. We learned how to fake things, during the war.

Judy Blundell

Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom's apple pie. In fact, now that Mom's apple pie comes frozen and baked by somebody who isn't Mom, the hot dog stands alone. What it symbolizes remains pure, even if what it contains does not.

William Zinsser

Never say 'no' to pie. No matter what, wherever you are, diet-wise or whatever, you know what? You can always have a small piece of pie, and I like pie. I don't know anybody who doesn't like pie. If somebody doesn't like pie, I don't trust them. I'll bet you Vladimir Putin doesn't like pie.

Al Roker

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.

James Howard Kunstler

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

Henry Ward Beecher

Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

L. J. Smith

Our culture is steeped in positive thinking - from the self-help mega-industry to college courses in positive psychology to the enduring pull of the American dream. There is no dislike button on Facebook. Nobody wants to be a downer.

Suleika Jaouad

A positive impact stems from our admission that we were wrong or our thinking was wrong. 'I'm wrong' are two little words that can help improve our own positive attitude.

Richard M. DeVos

Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to the extent that it yields one or more positive emotions. The problem with positive thinking is that it sometimes just stays up "in the head" and fails to drip down to become a fully embodied experience.