Negative Quotes:

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions

- A. R. Rahman

topic: Hatred, Negative, Different, Negative Emotions

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

- Aaron Belz

source: "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

topic: Space, Important, Negative, Negative Space

Compromise has a negative connotation.

- Abdolkarim Soroush

source: "Abdolkarim Soroush: The goals of Iran's Green Movement". Interview with Robin Wright, www.csmonitor.com. January 6, 2010.

topic: Negative, Compromise, Connotation

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

- Abdul Kalam

topic: Negative, Negative Experiences, Self Mastery

I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.

- Adam Sandler

topic: Horse, Fake, Negative

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

- Adepero Oduye

source: "The Power List: Adepero Oduye Primed For Hollywood Greatness" by Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

topic: Light, Parent, Negative

A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

- Adora Svitak

topic: Adults, Negative, Way, Negative Words, Impulsive

Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Roots, Negative, Letters, Negative Experiences

They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative

- Alan Green

topic: Football, Negative, Care

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

- Alan Watts

topic: Powerful, Power, Negative

Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.

- Alana Stewart

topic: Optimistic, Negative, Done, Positive Person, Sad Depressed

There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

- Albert Bandura

topic: Jobs, Quality, Negative, Job Satisfaction

I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I felt that such a negative answer was only part of the truth. I told him that in this universe in which we live, unbounded in space, infinite in stored energy and, who knows, unlimited in time, the adequate and positive answer, according to my belief, is that this universe may, also, possess infinite potentialities.

- Albert Claude

topic: Space, Energy, Negative

Negative thinking will always lead to failure and nervous prostration; but positive faith- positive thinking -will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living.

- Albert E Cliffe

topic: Positive Thinking, Healthy, Negative, Prostration

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Exercise, Skills, Negative

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Math, Negative, Invention

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

- Alex Cox

topic: Careers, Hollywood, Negative, Pickups

Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that which ought to be clear and instantly understood, and ought to be simply-stated with economy!

- Alex Toth

topic: Messages, Etc, Negative

Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.

- Alexander McCall Smith

topic: Writing, Thinking, Negative

Negative attitudes bring negative results.

- Alfred Armand Montapert

topic: Gratitude, Attitude, Negative

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

- Alfred Korzybski

topic: Two, Negative, Isolation

The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

- Alfred Korzybski

topic: Identity, Negative, Fundamentals, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

- Alfred Marshall

source: Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Negative, May, Consumption

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

- Alfred North Whitehead

source: Russell L. Kleinbach, Karl Marx, Alfred North Whitehead (1982). “Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory”

topic: Perception, Triumph, Negative, Postmodernism, Constructivism

My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper. To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.

- Alfred Stieglitz

topic: Choices, Negative, Magazines

Transnational Corporations must be legally accountable for the negative human rights impacts of their activities.

- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

topic: Impact, Rights, Negative

I wish to state emphatically that I do not believe in any sort of handwork or manipulation on a photographic negative or print.

- Alvin Langdon Coburn

topic: Believe, Wish, Negative

When you are wondering whether to say something negative about someone - even if it is true - the best rule to follow is, "I'll think about doing this tomorrow."

- Amy Dickinson

topic: Women, Thinking, Negative

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

- Amy Lee

source: "Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs". VH1 News, September 18, 2006.

topic: Beautiful, Negative, Outlets

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

topic: Business, Negative

There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .

- Angelo Dundee

topic: Thinking, Negative, Cost, Think Positively

Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.

- Ann B. Davis

topic: Bad Ass, Down And, Negative

When people say negative things or speculate, you can't help but feel hurt.

- Ann Curry

source: "Ann Curry: ‘Am I Not Good Enough?’" By Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2012.

topic: Hurt, People, Negative

You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

- Ann M. Martin

topic: Inspirational, Education, Negative, Accentuate, Latches

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

- Anne Hathaway

source: "Anne Hathaway: Jokes about Oscar speech 'get to me'". www.today.com. February 26, 2013.

topic: Being Positive, Negative, Remember, Very Positive

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

- Anne Northup

source: "Freshman Rep. Anne Northup Wins GOP Attention with Flair" by Susan Crabtree, www.questia.com.

topic: Running, People, Negative

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Negative, Way, Subtle, Film Composers

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Photography, Negative, Score

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

- Anthony Horowitz

topic: Believe, People, Negative

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Creative, Criticism, Negative, Negative Criticism

I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e., "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."

- Antonis Samaras

source: "An interview with Antonis Samaras, Greek prime minister, on austerity and unrest". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.washingtonpost.com. September 14, 2012.

topic: Negative, Want, Paradigm

Block out all the negative energy, and just love.

- Ariana Grande

topic: Block, Energy, Negative, Negative Energy

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

topic: This Generation, Negative, Generations, Platitudes

Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu«  ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Men, Negative, Satisfaction

The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a problem indicates some inconsistency or absurdity. As far as real meaning is concerned, both are imaginary, since 0 - a is as inconceivable as √(-a).

- Augustus De Morgan

topic: Real, Expression, Negative

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

- Avicii

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Negative, Mainstream

you are never called upon to prove a negative. that's a law of logic.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Law, Negative, Logic

i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.

- Ayn Rand

topic: If There Is A God, Negative, Given

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

- Azar Nafisi

source: "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

topic: Challenges, Negative, Culture

Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.

- Aziz Ansari

topic: Hate, Positivity, Negative, Vibes

The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.

- Barbara Fredrickson

topic: Negative, Scream

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

- Barry Mann

source: "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

topic: Negative, Turns

Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.

- Benjamin Hoff

topic: Reality, Negative, Nurture

Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

- Benjamin Hoff

topic: Appreciation, Understanding, Negative, Pooh And Piglet, Pooh Piglet

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Suicide, Suicidal, Negative

If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

- Betty Eadie

topic: Silence, Negative, Our Words

The replacement of negative thought with positive thought brings about a spiritual and physical change that can heal.

- Betty Shine

topic: Spiritual, Attitude, Negative, Positive Thoughts, Negative Thoughts

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

- Betty White

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Trying, Negative, Bigs, Accentuate

Negative attitude is nine times more powerful than positive attitude.

- Bikram Choudhury

topic: Powerful, Attitude, Negative, Bikram, Negative Attitude

All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can change the cause, change the effect, or choose the most powerful option become the cause!

- Bill Crawford

topic: Powerful, Negative, Three, Three Ways

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.

- Bill Foster

topic: Basketball, Negative, Disease, Negative Thoughts

Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up ***** would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.

- Bill Konigsberg

source: Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Impact, Hair, Negative, Weighing, Caring Too Much

The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.

- Bill Walsh

topic: People, Negative, Horizon

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

- Billy Corgan

topic: Negative, World, Reactions

Don't be a VICTIM of negative self talk - remember YOU are listening.

- Bob Proctor

source: FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 16, 2017

topic: Self, Listening, Negative, Self Talk

Positive things happen when you distance yourself from negative people

- Boonaa Mohammed

topic: Distance, People, Negative

The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Enemy, Negative, Emotion, Negative Emotions

Worry is negative goal setting.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Goal, Worry, Negative

You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Creative, Degrees, Negative, Negative Emotions

Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Thinking, Negative, Needs

Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Worry, Energy, Negative, Negative Thoughts

A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.

- Bruce Nash

topic: Reality, Negative, Enough

I don't have regrets because they are negative.

- Bruce Oldfield

topic: Regret, Negative

You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.

- Buddy Ebsen

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ballet, Negative, Lessons, Negative Reactions

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

- Cal Ripken, Jr.

topic: Athlete, Thinking, Negative

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

- Caroline Myss

topic: Attitude, Roots, Negative

Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world.

- Caroline Myss

topic: Negative, World, Results, Disintegration

Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

- Carolyn Hax

source: "Carolyn Hax Live: Advice Columnist Tackles Your Problems". Live Discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. August 7, 2009.

topic: Real, Opportunity, Negative, Real Courage

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing,

- Casey Kasem

source: "Casey At The Mike" by Susan Orlean, www.nytimes.com. May 6, 1990.

topic: Negative, Timeless, Accentuate

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

- Catherine Deneuve

topic: Long, Negative, Way

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

- Catherine Tate

source: "The Guardian profile: Catherine Tate" by wen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2005.

topic: Negative, Relief, Form

The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

- Catherine Zeta-Jones

topic: Turkeys, Bipolar, Negative, Cold Turkey

When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.

- Cecily von Ziegesar

topic: Years, Negative, Done

Mother Nature's ruthless to the weak, but isn't arbitrary cruel or negative. Mother Nature saves aggression for extreme situations, and instead uses consistent leadership--to help keep things running smoothly. Mother nature doesn't rule by fear and anger, but by calm strength and assertiveness.

- Cesar Millan

topic: Mother, Running, Negative, Assertiveness, Assertive

I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently, but everything that happened to me made me the person I am today. No matter how negative it seemed at the time or whatever hardship it seemed to have been at that time, Im just the sum of all those amazing experiences.

- Chaka Khan

topic: Negative, Done, Hardship, Amazing Experiences, Archaeologists

I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

- Channing Tatum

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: People, Insane, Negative

I've got great genetics from parents, and I'm not moaning that I have such a hard life. Trust me; it's worked out so much more in the positive then the negative.

- Channing Tatum

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Parent, Hard Life, Negative

Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.

- Charles Colson

topic: Christian, Civilization, Negative, Negative Influence

The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.

- Charles Horton Cooley

topic: Political, Reform, Negative, Economic Reforms

The congresspersons who are co-sponsoring the bill are being beat up in their districts with negative advertising. We need to go to them and say we understand; we're here to help and on your side.

- Charlie Norwood

source: "Interview with Congressman Charlie Norwood". Dynamic Chiropractic Interview, www.dynamicchiropractic.com. April 20, 1998.

topic: Your Side, Negative, Needs

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

- Charlize Theron

topic: People, Negative, Hiv

Whether it's Mrs Dalloway's lost love or Thérèse Raquin's burgeoning horror, The Paying Guests reminds us of every great novel we've gasped or winced at, or loudly urged the protagonists through, and it does not relent. . . . The Paying Guests is the apotheosis of [Waters'] talent; at least for now. I have tried and failed to find a single negative thing to say about it. Her next will probably be even better. Until then, read it, Flaubert, Zola, and weep.

- Charlotte Mendelson

topic: Lost Love, Water, Negative, Zola, Apotheosis

People are negative no matter what you do.

- Cher

topic: People, Negative, Matter

I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest days—those very days in which I was naming myself—I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before.

- Cheryl Strayed

topic: Names, Darkness, Negative, Wild Places

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

- Chester Bennington

source: "What we need to learn from Linkin Park frontman's death" by Clay Cane, www.cnn.com. July 20, 2017.

topic: Pain, Negative, Able, Numbing

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

- Chloe Sevigny

topic: Positive, Being Positive, Negative

The media loves negative spin.

- Chloe Sevigny

source: "Chloe Sevigny on Pauly D, Parodies, and More". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2011.

topic: Media, Negative

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

- Chris Bohjalian

source: Chris Bohjalian (2011). “The Night Strangers”, p.28, Broadway Books

topic: Negative

It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.

- Chris Matthews

topic: People, Negative, Needs

I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.

- Chrissy Teigen

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Negative, Be Kind

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

- Christina Aguilera

topic: Divorce, Negative, Would Be, Negative Reactions

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax changes are in fact reductions, the more intuitive way to express this result is that tax cuts have very large and persistent positive output effects

- Christina Romer

topic: Cutting, Impact, Negative, Tax Increases

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

- Christina Romer

topic: Impact, Negative, Significant

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

- Christine Baranski

source: Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.

topic: Trying, Energy, Negative, Negative Energy

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.

- Christopher Nolan

topic: Negative, Looks, Print

A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.

- Christopher Paolini

source: Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.932, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Negative, Injury, Handicaps

You check the pregnancy test every month, and when it comes up negative it can start to wear on you

- Cindy Margolis

source: "Margolis tackles off-screen challenge" By Kat Carney, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2003.

topic: Pregnancy, Negative, Tests, Pregnancy Test

My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all.

- Cindy McCain

source: "NBC's Ann Curry: John McCain is Old, He's 71. Did I Mention He's 71?". "Today" with Ann Curry, www.newsbusters.org. May 8, 2008.

topic: Husband, Negative, My Husband, Campaigning

It's always the negative things that seep through into your consciousness. Most of the positive things just roll off real fast. I just try not to pay attention to it, because I've never read anything about my band that's accurate.

- Conor Oberst

topic: Real, Trying, Negative

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

- Cory Doctorow

topic: Long, Cynical, Negative

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

- Craig Venter

topic: Pain, Drug, Negative, Negative Consequences

To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

- Criss Jami

topic: Eye, Risk, Negative

Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

- Criss Jami

topic: Tolerance, Negative, Opinion

I'm positive about the negative, but a little negative about the positive.

- Curly Howard

topic: Negative, Littles, Three Stooges, Stooges

Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Peace, Negative, Emotion, Thoughts And Emotions

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Motivation, Negative, Action, Human Actions

A negative look from someone else may mean nothing more than they're constipated!

- Daniel Amen

topic: Mean, Negative, Looks

I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.

- Daniel Drezner

topic: Writing, Quality, Negative, Academic Work, Academic Writing

Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

- Daniel Goleman

topic: Being Positive, Negative, Positive Work, Work Environment

Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead of realizing their true potential. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.

- Daniel J. Siegel

topic: People, Negative, Levels, True Potential

If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

- Daniel Johns

topic: Hero, Negative

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

- Dario Fo

topic: Negative, Culture, Used, Connotation

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

- David Bowie

topic: Thinking, Negative, Negative Thinking, Thinking Negative

Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood.

- David D. Burns

source: David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

topic: Depression, Trying, Negative, Restructure

One does not have to prove a negative. One should assume a negative.

- David Eller

source: David Eller (2007). “Atheism Advanced: Further Thoughts of a Freethinker”

topic: Religion, Atheism, Negative

Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of this are evident everywhere in the form of fear, separation, war, disease and multifarious kinds of disharmony on all levels.

- David Icke

topic: Life, War, Negative, Disharmony

Since you are "in the market," you need to set standards of what you are seeking in a partner and in a relationship. Dating is not simply a prelude to a committed relationship or marriage. Dating is an opportunity to evaluate whether the person you are dating is a good candidate for you. You need to pay attention to your partner's positive and negative characteristics. Ask yourself whether you could live with this person for the rest of your life.

- David Price

topic: Opportunity, Dating, Negative, Committed Relationship

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

- David Tang

source: "Kate Reporting" by Lauren Milligan, www.vogue.co.uk. June 16, 2011.

topic: Cash, Flow, Negative

Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.

- David Wright

topic: Finishing, Negative, Lasts

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

- Deborah Tannen

topic: Ideas, Negative, Different

Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Mean, Negative, Guests, Unwelcome, Brokenhearted

We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv e mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Silence, Mind, Negative, Positive Mind, Negative Mind

I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.

- Deepika Padukone

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Careers, Negative, Way

By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Motivation, Healthy, Negative

Don't let negative people determine your self-worth.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Self Worth, People, Negative

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

- Denise Mina

topic: Thinking, Negative, Flaws, Foibles

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

- Diane Lane

topic: Gun, Directors, Negative

Every donation received is a potential negative ad. Vetting money is just as important as raising it.

- Dick Morris

topic: Political, Important, Negative

Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An effective rebuttal makes it hard for the campaign whose ad is destroyed to be believed about anything ever again.

- Dick Morris

topic: Political, Negative, Campaigns, Rebuttal, Irreparable

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

- Donald Cram

source: Donald J Cram, Jane M Cram (2007). “Container Molecules and Their Guests”, p.1, Royal Society of Chemistry

topic: Fog, Ideas, Negative, Negative And Positive, Positive Results

Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?

- Donald Sutherland

topic: Beautiful, Hopeful, Negative, Oddballs

I don't like being negative to people who are so nice to me.

- Donald Trump

topic: Nice, People, Negative

I'm a busy guy but I set aside quiet time every morning and every evening to keep my equilibrium centered on my own path. I don't like being swayed by anything that might be negative or damaging.

- Donald Trump

topic: Morning, Guy, Negative, Quiet Time

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

- Donna Karan

topic: Negative, Accents

Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.

- Donnie Yen

source: "Donnie Yen Exclusive Interview: Discussing ‘Dragon’ And The Censored Ending Audiences May Never See". Interview with Chris C. Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2012.

topic: Negative

I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.

- Doug Davidson

topic: Waiting, Way, Negative, Waiting For Something, Unimportant Things

Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

- Doug Ose

source: "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 11, 2001.

topic: California, Energy, Negative, High Energy

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

- Drake

topic: Negative, Stories, Flip, According To Plan

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

- Dries van Noten

topic: Creativity, Negative, Restriction

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

- Earl Butz

topic: Trying, Negative, Thinker

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Negative, Lessons, May, Concealed

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

- Edward Norton

topic: Travel, Tourism, Negative

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

- Edwin Louis Cole

topic: Positive, Negative, Ends, God Is In Control, Keep The Faith

We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness.

- Eknath Easwaran

topic: Mind, Negative, Needs

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

- Eknath Easwaran

topic: Decision, Negative, Action, Negative Thoughts

The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.

- Eli Roth

topic: Law, Scary, Negative, Diminishing Returns

For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.

- Ellen DeGeneres

topic: People, Important, Negative, Upbeat

Even if a relationship doesn't work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what's around the corner.

- Ellie Goulding

source: "Love Lessons From Ellie Goulding". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. October 9, 2012.

topic: Work Out, Negative

The negative is just as important as the positive.

- Ellsworth Kelly

topic: Important, Negative

The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result

- Emile Durkheim

topic: Suicide, Negative, Victim

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

- Emmet Fox

source: Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

topic: Positive, Single Mom, Negative, Negative Thoughts, Positive Thinking In Life

If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.

- Emmet Fox

source: Emmet Fox (2010). “Make Your Life Worthwhile”, p.36, Harper Collins

topic: Encouragement, Thinking, Negative, Negative Thoughts

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.

- Eric Davis

topic: Smile, Energy, Negative, Just Keep Smiling, Painless

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

- Eric Thomas

topic: Real, Math, Negative

[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.

- Erwin Schrodinger

topic: Negative, Levels, Orderliness, Living Organisms, Low Level

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

- Eugene Jarecki

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Negative, Lessons, Significant, Significant Things

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

- Farrah Fawcett

source: "A Serious Farrah Fawcett Takes Control In 'extremities'" by Stephen Farber, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

topic: Negative, Consequence, Negative Consequences

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

- Felicity Kendal

topic: People, Negative, Agents

It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

- Flip Wilson

topic: Opportunity, Say Anything, Negative, Equal Opportunity

Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

- Francis Crick

topic: Trying, Negative, Too Much

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

- Francis Parker Yockey

source: Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.275, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

topic: Reflection, Negative, Moments

When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.

- Franco Harris

topic: Attitude, Trying, Negative

Since hearing beauty in something is essentially a positive response and hearing ugliness is negative, might it ultimately be more difficult for an open-minded listener to define ugliness than it is to define beauty?

- Frank J. Oteri

topic: Negative, Might, Hearing, Positive Response

Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right.

- Frankie Boyle

topic: Two, Scotland, Negative, Scots, Negatives Make

I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

- Freema Agyeman

source: Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2007.

topic: Negative, Estates, Please

The first fundamental law of the universe is the law of three forces, of three principles, or , as it is often called, the law of three. According to this law every action, every phenomenon in all worlds without exception, is the result of a simultaneous action of three forces- the positive, the negative, and the neutralizing.

- G. I. Gurdjieff

topic: Law, Principles, Negative

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

- Gary Allan

topic: Negative, Matter

The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedom… the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims.

- Gary North

source: Gary North (1990). “Victim's rights: the biblical view of civil justice”, Inst for Christian Economics

topic: Law, Negative, Foundation

When you feel yourself in the grip of an emotion such as jealousy or anger or sorrow, detach yourself from it. Take a step back. When you do that, you can allow the emotion to run through you without causing negative thoughts or actions.

- Gary Zukav

topic: Running, Sorrow, Negative

Each of us has great gifts, but many of us severely limit ourselves with negative attitudes about our potential.

- Gene R. Cook

topic: Attitude, Self Esteem, Negative, Negative Attitude

Right now our blog on the presence of tape at EMC World is seeing twice as much traffic as all the other EMC World related content. Why? Many of our readers are coming to the obvious conclusion that tape, despite the negative marketing, is still an optimal way to protect and archive their information...

- George Arthur Crump

topic: Marketing, Archives, Negative, Storage

The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.

- George H. Smith

topic: Negative, Utterance, Way

Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.

- George McGovern

topic: Negative, Pay, Election

Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

- Georgette Mosbacher

topic: Inner Strength, Negative, Faces

I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.

- Gertrude Berg

topic: Thinking, Anxiety, Negative, Negative Thinking

I like when somebody says something negative about me because I can put it back in their face

- Gilbert Arenas

topic: Negative, Faces, Because I Can

Diva has a negative connotation.

- Glenn Close

topic: Negative, Connotation

How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?

- Gloria Estefan

topic: Negative, World, This World

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

- Godfrey Reggio

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Trying, Negative, Looks, Negation, Positive Values

There is no end to the good we can do, to the influence we can have with others. Let us not dwell on the critical or the negative. Let us pray for strength; let us pray for capacity and desire to assist others. Let us radiate the light of the gospel at all times and all places, that the Spirit of the Redeemer may radiate from us.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Light, Desire, Negative, Redeemer

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Personality, Negative, Outlook

A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don't feel that way. I feel like it's another medium to reach a broader audience.

- Grace Helbig

topic: Pride, Negative, Television

Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as 'negative' is actually a liberating process for me.

- Grey DeLisle

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Song, Negative, Labels

The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions are positive rather than negative.

- Hans-Hermann Hoppe

source: Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2013). “A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics”, p.151, Springer Science & Business Media

topic: Effort, Negative, Action

Speak not through the positive mind or the negative mind, but from the neutral mind.

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Communication, Mind, Negative, Positive Mind, Negative Mind

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

- Harold Geneen

topic: Negative, Nine, Surprise

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

- Harold Stephen Black

topic: Negative, Feedback, Performances, Amplifiers, Negative Feedback

I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for

- Harry Shearer

source: "Harry Shearer: The Voices in My Head". Interview with Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. May 14, 2015.

topic: People, Boss, Negative

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

- Hayao Miyazaki

topic: Mind, Negative, States, Thoughts Of Death

Accentuate the positive / Eliminate the negative.

- Hayley Williams

topic: Negative, Accentuate