Negative Quotes

• It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Great
  • America
  • Death

• Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Way
  • Positive
  • Inspiration

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

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Enthusiasm

• Is negative space the space you don't like, or the space that is not there? And if it's not there how can you tell?

  

  Emma Bull
  • Space
  • Negative

• 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
  • People
  • Business
  • She

• I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.

  

  Aleksandra Mir
  • Negative
  • Prepared
  • Precautions

• Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Purpose
  • Positive
  • Hurt

• The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Garden
  • Negative
  • Resolve

• 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
  • Life
  • Live
  • Divorce

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

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • World
  • Positive
  • This World

• There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Politician

• When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

  

  Farrah Abraham
  • Emotions
  • Minutes
  • Nothingness

• It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Giving
  • Feelings
  • Acting

• 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
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Drug

• We pretty much want to get back is some of the integrity of the band from everybody and move ahead. So we don’t dwell on that much. Everything is well, done and over. It’s over. If people really don’t want to play or have a negative take on everything, it’s not too helpful to the brand you know.

  

  Stephen Pearcy Ratt
  • Move
  • Brand
  • Helpful

• Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Might

• Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Success

• Imagine if you came to work and you wanted to be positive, and somebody made a positive situation negative. I don't want to be negative. I've been fighting for 17 years, always negative. Why can't I have something positive done?

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Work
  • Done
  • Why

• I feel that there is a culture being built that is a celebration of agony. There is also a celebration of being an outcast, to the degree that you are segregating yourself in a negative way from people who may want to be your friend.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • People
  • Culture
  • Celebration

• Of course we all break and we all cry and stumble. It's whether you allow the negative experiences to define you or shape you and make you become who you are in the best possible way. You use them as tools.

  

  KT Tunstall
  • Impossible
  • Break
  • Cry

• “We would rather be sure of a correctly predicted negative outcome than face the realistic uncertainty of an unpredictable future even if it includes the possibility of great joy and success.”

  

  Brad Blanton
  • Future
  • Success
  • Outcome

• Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Reality
  • Mean
  • Literature

• Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Live
  • Society
  • Desire

• When you work towards your goals, you become healthier and healthier, mentally. It is very hard to do with a negative attitude. You just need to become more and more positive. And then you start to succeed. And starting to succeed is like winning a race and having the audience cheer. That makes you feel happy and motivates you to work even harder and achieve even more.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Positive

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