Quotes About Negative

Like depression, loneliness arises from unhappiness creating thoughts feeding into the insula, deepening the negative spiral of thoughts and feelings.

Ten employees who had helped unload and handle the monkeys were also screened for infection, and they also tested negative, but none of them were euthanized.

We recall that there are two ways of going around: The spiral is positive repetition, ever-evolving in an upward trend. The spinning wheel in the snow is the negative repetition, ever wasting energy.

Even the strongest toward emotion, lust, is unlikely to make you run, whereas fear can do so in an instant. The toward emotions are more subtle, more easily displaced, and harder to build on, than the away emotions. This also explains why upward spirals, where positive emotions beget more positive emotions, are less common than downward spirals, where negative emotions beget more negative emotions. Human beings walk toward, but run away.

Bad investments are the exact opposite. They require constant new capital to keep an investment going at ever lower returns, or in the worst case, negative returns - in effect your are burning money. Finding

I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person's life void of negative experiences.

While patriotism often gets triggered by something negative—you get patriotic when your group is under threat—emulation works the opposite way. We find it hard to see emulation as an emotion; the ancients were much bigger on imitation than we were.

It has been suggested that hanging out with a dust bunny who carries a purse might have a negative impact on my image as a hard-core crime fighter." "Don't be ridiculous. It's a very nice clutch.

I do think there's a mind-set—no matter how much we may want to deny it in this country—about the perception of blackness. And sometimes it's a subconscious mind-set. Where anything associated with blackness has a negative connotation. This mind-set has a very fundamental assumption. A false assumption that black people cannot be intelligent. I

A positive philosophy turns into a positive attitude, which turns into positive actions, which turns into positive results, which turns into a positive lifestyle. A positive life. And a negative philosophy turns into a negative attitude, which turns into negative actions, which turns into negative results, which turns into a negative lifestyle.

Repression and denial set up elaborate games to pretend that negative thoughts and feelings are not occurring.

When you focus on what you fear—you get more of what you fear. When you focus on what you don't want—you get more of what you don't want. When you focus on attempting to control others—you attract more of being controlled. Your attention to them brings more of them, and more like them, into your life.

A lot of my friends, we all grew up sort of not very wealthy. And in England, whatever ends up being a negative, that's a positive.

Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scottish gallows humour; our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing.

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

Members of Congress and their staffs should be the first to feel the negative consequences of poorly written legislation, not the last.

The difference between playing a positive and a negative role is only in the portrayal.

I don't want to be linked to anything negative. I don't want negative energy. I want everything positive around me.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

Let's say you have white milk and chocolate milk, and one of them is good emotions and one of them is bad emotions, and you pour both in: you're still going to fill up and run over.

I've had negative experiences with cops. I've had positive experiences with cops.

I understand what 'Lost' was, and I count my blessings. I'm usually happy to talk to people. I don't think I've ever had anybody say anything negative to me about it except, 'I didn't get the ending. What the hell was that all about?' And I'm like, 'Talk to Damon Lindelof!'

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

That's the thing with social media: it's a gift and a curse. It's cool on one level, but it's also bad.