Quotes About Negativity

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

When you have a lot of stress and negativity around you, when you cut that away, you cleanse.

I feel like it's big now with the passing of Mac Miller. Rest in peace, Mac Miller, who was a good friend of mine. That just showed people, like, it could happen to anybody. Just because you have fame or money, you're not immune to negativity and depression and stress.

It's easy for especially NBA players to get caught up in the stress of the job, to get caught up in negativity and in what other people think, and it's hard, but the best way to live is to keep things simple and enjoy every day.

I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.

A lot of issues that we have in the world today rise from the fact that we do not know enough about each other's cultures, that we don't respect each other's origins and there is so much negativity and strife around because we don't know where the other person is coming from.

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.

Sometimes my negativity worked to my advantage, and early in my career, it got me going. But you need to understand that you're not just fighting opponents, you're also fighting yourself.

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

I've never been an optimist.

I'm not optimistic.

I am pessimistically optimistic.

No matter what you do, you're going to run into haters online. We're not talking about ordinary, disgruntled customers who should be addressed with empathy and understanding. Haters are a breed apart.

I don't know why it took me some time to get used to the ways of this industry because I have realized that out here when people want to pull you down they really pull you down.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

I don't read reviews, and I try not to read articles about me. It taints your outlook: if you believe the good things, you've got to believe the bad things, too.

I don't want negativity to be around me, so I stay with a positive outlook.

I think our society today, the negativity is at the forefront, so you see all the people that have outrage about this or that.

Wherever you look - especially on social media - we see hate; there is shouting and daily outrage.

When someone is outright nasty to you that hurts. I really try not to have a negative outlook. I mean, I'm not going to say I'm not disappointed when I read something bad about myself.

I take the good; I take the bad. I don't outweigh them. I just try to balance it all.

I'm hugely negative, so if a joke doesn't land it takes me a long time to get over it. If something doesn't go well I go dark in my head. Basically I start thinking it should be illegal for me to be doing comedy.