Negative Quotes

• Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Negative
  • Nasty
  • Narrow

• When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Think
  • Positive
  • Negative

• Dealing with negative comments is part of this job, and I've had to develop a thick skin, though some days it's easier than others.

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • Job
  • Part
  • Comments

• Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Funny
  • Dark
  • Negative

• It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Way
  • Never
  • Negative

• I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.

  

  Molly Shannon
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Healthy

• Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.

  

  Edmund White
  • Positive
  • Enemy
  • Gay

• There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Positive
  • Stronger
  • Lessons

• The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Team
  • Negative

• If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • World
  • Stop

• As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Mind
  • Enjoy
  • Criticism

• Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Without

• I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to make sure that I do a nice black family film; that's like keeping my home base. I do other things, but I like to always come back to a positive family film, because of all the negative influences today.

  

  Vivica A. Fox
  • Home
  • Today
  • Black

• In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

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

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Negative

• If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • You
  • Negative
  • Surprise

• Negative politics have always been around.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Negative

• I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Trying
  • Negative
  • Parenting

• Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Nature
  • Positive
  • Function

• Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • True
  • Positive

• Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Way
  • Negative

• The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Negative
  • Demons

• Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Smile
  • Anxiety
  • Anger

• Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Lost
  • Focus
  • Positive

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