Negative Quotes

• Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Values
  • Safety
  • Diversity

• I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.

  

  Michael Zaslow
  • Home
  • Hurt
  • Feelings

• At no time in the past, now or in the future has or will Russia take any part in actions aimed at overthrowing the legitimate government. I'm talking about something else right now - when someone does this, the outcome is very negative. Libya's state is disintegrated, Iraq's territory is flooded with terrorists, it looks like the scenario will be the same for Syria, and you know what the situation is in Afghanistan.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Past
  • Action
  • Terrorist

• We just want to be a positive voice in a really negative world.

  

  Adam Agee
  • World
  • Positive
  • Voice

• A crisis, by its very nature, is a negative event.

  

  Judy Smith
  • Negative
  • Crisis
  • Event

• The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth century before mathematicians felt comfortable dealing with zero and with negative numbers, and why even today many people cannot accept the square root of minus-one as a genuine number.

  

  Keith Devlin
  • People
  • Brain
  • Human

• Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Power
  • Thoughts
  • Personal

• One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Powerful
  • Attitude
  • Optimism

• For every negative that is a disappointment, there is one that is a joy.

  

  Edward S. Curtis
  • Joy
  • Negative
  • Disappointment

• The Internet obviously changes things; we've seen that in the music industry above all else. As an author, I'm now having to deal with the fact that it's happening in the publishing industry as well. And publishing is going through a very difficult time. Some view it as positive, some negative, but nobody really knows how to deal with it. If you're an author it looks very challenging because your work can be pirated so easily and there's very little you can do about it.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • Difficult
  • Industry
  • Publishing

• The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • May
  • Responsibility
  • Emotion

• 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
  • Mind
  • States
  • Bother

• Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative.

  

  Eliot Wigginton
  • Teaching
  • Negative
  • Occupation

• I've never heard of a size 0 or a negative human. That's hard. A lot of girls aren't naturally built that way.

  

  Serinda Swan
  • Humans
  • Heard
  • Size

• If you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion, but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Different
  • Feelings
  • Eye

• 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
  • Done
  • Kind
  • Negative

• If we can fix it, than I think we can hope to do well in March. If we can't fix it, then I think we are going be done in a big hurry. I don't mean to be real negative, but I try to be honest.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Hope
  • Honest
  • Fix

• Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that art is. All we want to do is transform the negative emotions into light. We want to compost them into light.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Art
  • Joy
  • Emotion

• If you look at the ecosystem, entrepreneurs as a class have gotten younger, younger, and younger. They also as a class have become less and less and less experienced. The good part about that is that you're unlocking this ability to start a company to so many more people. That's an amazing positive. The negative is they're coming to that job with dramatically less experience than they've ever had. So there needs to be someone around the table that can then help them.

  

  Chamath Palihapitiya
  • People
  • Helping
  • Ability

• I found in the past when I did a bit of punditry, I was very conscious of not saying anything negative about people I played against, because players are elephants and they remember when someone says something - I stored things for years and just waited for my opportunity.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • People
  • Negative
  • Conscious

• Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Enough
  • Dirty
  • Gypsy

• Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Achievement
  • Overcoming
  • Enlightenment

• Don't focus on the negative things that can happen, just think about the positive things.

  

  Michelle Kwan
  • Things
  • Happens
  • Negative

• Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it - the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges.

  

  Melanne Verveer
  • Politics
  • Aspect
  • Charges

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