Quotes About Negativity

It was human nature to obsess on negatives, to worry the smallest of sparks into infernos.

Just when you think something can't get any worse someone who dislikes you comes to watch.

If a married individual thought as negatively about his or her spouse as the American Left does about America, we would find that individual's proclamations of deep love for the spouse difficult to believe.

people so often seemed not only willing but eager to believe the worst—and the worse, the better.

I'm allergic to attitude.

In all my years I don't think I've ever said anything nice about Dusty Rhodes to any member of the media.

I think it's weird that they're trying to make us be negative about 'Sex and the City'... Not HBO, but the press. Really, they're dying for us to say something negative about 'Sex and the City.'

'No' is always an easier stand than 'Yes.'

Every single cast has a couple bad eggs, or that person that everyone is making fun of or doesn't like.

I'm English, so I can be very 'half empty.'

I think if you want to engage in social media, you must take the good with the bad.

Mates are a waste of fucking time. They are always ready to drag you down tae their level of social, sexual and intellectual mediocrity.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

If we want to make the antisocial turn in queer theory we must be willing to turn away from the comfort zone of polite exchange in order to embrace a truly political negativity, one that promises, this time, to fail, to make a mess, to fuck shit up, to be loud, unruly, impolite, to breed resentment, to bash back, to speak up and out, to disrupt, assassinate, shock, and annihilate.

The critical father. Many children grow up to hate their fathers (or mothers) because of negativity in the home. While parents must discipline their children in order to steer them in the right moral direction, a father who constantly berates his son or daughter will severely impair that child's success. This type of parent is often found in legalistic religious homes. Strict discipline imposed without a demonstration of tender love can turn a child away from faith.

You can learn to observe negative thoughts as they arise, let them stay a while and then simply watch them evaporate before your eyes. And when this occurs, an extraordinary thing can happen: a profound sense of happiness and peace fills the void.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

All of the negativity and unsavory characters in this environment only serve to make the exceptions shine all the more brightly.

Skunking is spraying negative energy into the workplace, as skunks do when they're frightened.

correctly reprogramming the brain is more than reminding yourself to think happy thoughts. I prefer that you adopt a mindset of "accurate thinking" with a positive or optimistic can-do spin to stay in the right frame of mind—happy. However, that's not easy to do because the default setting on the brain—set back in prehistoric times—is negativity.

Many people with ADD suffer from moodiness, excessive worrying, and negativity. This attitude comes from their past. They have many experiences with failure, so they come to expect it. Their "sky is falling" attitude has a tendency to get on the nerves of coworkers and can infect the work environment.

When the deep limbic system is less active, there is generally a positive, more hopeful state of mind. When it is heated up, or overactive, negativity can take over.