Quotes About Negative

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

S]ocial change is not clearly linear and rarely totally beneficial or detrimental. Social change nearly nearly always produces positive and negative effects that are distributed differentially in the affected population.

Doesn't certainty about a universal negative require omniscience? Don't you have to have knowledge of everywhere to know that there is no X anywhere?

Maybe that's what history is, you go from one I can't believe it the next. And sometimes the I can't believe its are good, and sometimes they're bad. But the sum total of positive ones always outweighs the negative ones.

Women are more likely than men to experience negative emotions after a hookup. Men are more likely to regret when the woman they hooked up with wants a more serious relationship. Men report that their ideal outcome of a hookup would be more hookups in the future. Women are more likely to report that their ideal outcome would be a romantic relationship. Following hookups, women are more likely than men to report feeling "used" and experiencing depressed mood.42

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

The mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad.

Study after study shows that emotions can make us sick. Any time we remain locked in a negative emotional pattern, we create the conditions for physical and mental illness. Chronically stuck feelings, especially those we don't deal with, damage our neuropeptides, the cells that promote communication between all parts of our body. We then become disconnected from ourselves, and that disconnection creates alienation and disease.

hatred is a terrible thing. Hatred hurts the hater far more than its object.

As a veteran myself, I know how outdated some VA facilities are and the negative impact that can have.

This is the positive way of seeing the modern Jewish dilemma: I am from everywhere. The negative way is no matter where you go, you find out that you're a victim, that you're unwanted and don't belong.

The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.

I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I'm not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I've had to re-examine my thinking.

They can believe they've overcome or effectively compartmentalized negative events, but traumatic memory—it can become locked into the body.

Ascher eyed me. "You have a very negative attitude. Just relax and we'll get this done. Try not to look around so much. And for God's sake, smile." I smiled. "Maybe without clenching your jaw.

memory is linked to strong emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker on the wall of the brain. But there's a fine line between a negative moment and a traumatic one. Negative moments get remembered. Traumatic ones get forgotten, or so warped that they are unrecognizable

I hate seeing good people being good friends with bad influences.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

We can be positive that our drinking was negative.

You can't control what people say about you. Even those who know least about you will want to talk about you and would say a lot of negative opinions that will hurt your reputation. What is important is that you take note of those who are ignorant about you and those who really know you.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

To refer a subject to a negative class is unmeaning, unless the 'not' is a mere modification of the positive, as in the example of 'not honourable' and 'dishonourable'; or unless the class is characterized by the absence rather than the presence of a particular quality.

The value of any experience isn't in its positive or negative effect on his life but in the sheer luminous power of it, the vividness, the ferocity, the amount and degree of pure sensation that it provides. Intensity.

I trusted providence to prevent a sneeze, refused to worry, declined to dwell on negative possibilities, and I did not sneeze, did not sneeze, still did not sneeze, but then I farted.