Downward Spiral Quotes:

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Self, Succes, Successful Life

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

- Ray LaMontagne

source: "Ray LaMontagne: Digging Deep And Doing What He Does" by Ellen Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2010.

topic: Choices, Finding Yourself, Spirals, Downward Spiral, Bad Choices

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

- Charles Stanley

topic: New Year, Fear, Opportunity, Indecisiveness, Stagnation

When you allow circumstances beyond your control to determine your attitude and actions, you risk plunging into a downward spiral of hasty decisions and faulty judgments, to overreacting, giving up too soon, and missing those opportunities that always - always - appear just when you think life will never get better.

- Nick Vujicic

source: Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.94, WaterBrook

topic: Attitude, Giving Up, Thinking, Downward Spiral, Hasty

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play

- Rio Ferdinand

source: "This time it's for Rio" by Paul Wilson, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2006.

topic: Football, Play, Ideas, Downward Spiral, English Football

Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.

- Manmohan Singh

topic: Real, Giving, World, Downward Spiral, Downturn

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

- Simon Mainwaring

topic: Eye, America, Life Is, Downward Spiral, Blind Eyes

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.266, Pan Macmillan

topic: America, Spirals, Lows, Downward Spiral, Dumbness

There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle - or rather, a downward spiral.

- Michael Hudson

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Recovery, Circles, People, Downward Spiral, Vicious Circles

The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.

- Richey Edwards

topic: Baby, Eye, Circles, Blinded, Downward Spiral

Right now in the insurance markets, we have sort of a disaster unfolding, a downward spiral, adverse selection, premiums in the individual market going through the roof. People can't afford insurance and insurance companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars. If you repeal part of Obamacare to get rid of the individual mandate but keep some of the ideas, that people can still buy insurance after they're sick, the situation gets extraordinarily worse. And so what we're seeing now could be tenfold greater if you only repeal part of Obamacare.

- Rand Paul

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Ideas, Obamacare, Sick, Downward Spiral, Selection

It is so easy to "calibrate" -that is, given the pressures on a smaller company to redefine in less ambitious terms- that which you are in business to accomplish. The moment this happens the downward spiral begins.

- Kevin Allen

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Ambitious, Pressure, Moments, Downward Spiral

Since social media has become so big, body image has taken a downward spiral. Especially in surfing, because we're in bikinis all day, we're really critiqued. After a competition, social media will just be talking about who looked better in a bikini instead of who surfed better. It's not even about the results anymore, so much is body. And that's really frustrating at times.

- Coco Ho

topic: Taken, Media, Talking, Downward Spiral

One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback.

- Randy Pausch

topic: Real, Educational, Keys, Downward Spiral

There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral.

- David Oyelowo

topic: Moving, Civilization, Community, Downward Spiral

The danger is not only that these austerity measures are killing the European economies but also that they threaten the very legitimacy of European democracies - not just directly by threatening the livelihoods of so many people and pushing the economy into a downward spiral, but also indirectly by undermining the legitimacy of the political system through this backdoor rewriting of the social contract.

- Ha-Joon Chang

source: "The root of Europe's riots" by Ha-Joon Chang, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2012.

topic: People, Political, Democracy, Social Contract, Downward Spiral

Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.

- Alan Thein Durning

topic: Latin, Rain, Land, Downward Spiral

Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that they're buying goods and services - and the economy, instead of being on a downward spiral, starts back up on an upward spiral.

- Barack Obama

topic: Mean, People, Important, Paying Taxes, Downward Spiral

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

- Marcus Brigstocke

topic: School, Personality, Childhood, Downward Spiral

I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldn’t have much of a schedule, and then I'd have less motivation. It's a downward spiral that I want to avoid, so I keep the schedule sacred.

- Chris Guillebeau

topic: Downward Spiral

Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.

- Heather Mills

topic: Children, Divorce, Pages, Celebrity Culture, Downward Spiral