Quotes About Negativity

I had sucked on the tit of disillusionment and teethed on the bitter root of cynicism. I was on the way to the misanthropy that would sour me.

You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.

A bitter heart is never thankful & a thankful heart is never bitter.

Positive or negative its all feedback.

Rather than elevate themselves to your level, haters would rather drag you down. Once you understand them, you will no longer feel confusion or even dislike. You'll just feel sorry for them.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

And being mean? It takes energy. As in, you wake up in the morning and you've got only so much energy for the day, and being mean just sucks it right out of you. It's exhausting.

when it comes to being a writer: getting out of your own way, and getting rid of the countless negative thoughts that tell you what a hopelessly uninteresting specimen of humanity you are.

Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say 'I've got cancer' and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy?" —

another clue to finding true self and vocation: we must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations-projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves-and acknowledge and embrace our own liabilities and limits.

Clear communication always leads to conflict, and the clearer the communication the faster we arrive at it. Most people sense this intuitively. When there is the potential for disagreement, they create a gap between how they feel versus what they say. If we see conflict as a negative force to be avoided, and most people do, then we tend to "murk" up the communication.

in the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They

in the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don't care about them or don't like them.

We are hardwired to remember negative events over positive ones, so we ruminate on our mistakes and the slights of others. Our ability to use language means that we can spend hours mentally criticizing what we did in the past or worrying about what we'll do in the future. No wonder we love dogs, who don't need meditation retreats to get over the shame of getting into the garbage last Thursday.

In the book Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman suggests that "a mood can spread through a group with great rapidity." How we show up is contagious; the mood "infects" others and spreads throughout the group. If the energy is negative, negativity will spread. If the energy is positive, creativity and optimism will spread.

Negative people see life as a series of obligations and hassles. For

However, it's not negative to talk about negativity because it's an emotion like any other, and the more emotion you can generate in your interaction, the greater an impression you will make.

Life sucks. This is news why?

Once you turn against yourself, it's hard not to believe that everyone else is against you, too

According to them, when you think a dark or pessimistic thought, it produces a cloud in the sky. If enough people are thinking gloomy thoughts at once, then rain will begin to fall. That

As usual in psychology, the negative is more powerful than the positive.

Today you will spend solitary moments of conversation with yourself, either listing your complaints or counting your blessings.

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.