Quotes About Negativity

If there's one thing that really spoils [fill in blank with anything good], it's OTHER PEOPLE.

Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.

Las personas irracionales revelan en su vida patrones negativos: errores que no cesan de repetir, conflictos innecesarios que las siguen por doquier, sueños y proyectos que jamás se hacen realidad, enojo y deseos de cambio que nunca se traducen en acciones concretas. Son impulsivas y reactivas y no están conscientes de ello. Todos podemos tomar decisiones irracionales, algunas de ellas debido a circunstancias que escapan a nuestro control.

The best bosses do more than charge up people, and recruit and breed energizers. They eliminate the negative, because even a few bad apples and destructive acts can undermine many good people and constructive acts.

It takes numerous encounters with positive people to offset the energy and happiness sapped by a single episode with one asshole.

Negative interactions (and the bad apples who provoke them) pack such a wallop in close relationships because they are so distracting, emotionally draining, and deflating. When a group does interdependent work, rotten apples drag down and infect everyone else. Unfortunately, grumpiness, nastiness, laziness, and stupidity are remarkably contagious.

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.

the average level of happiness increases in old age; fewer negative emotions occur and, when they do, they don't persist as long. Connected to this, brain-imaging studies show that negative images have less of an impact, and positive images have more of an impact on brain metabolism in older people, as compared to young.

So whenever I hear people focusing on their I-don't-wants, rather than what they do want, I know the noise in their head must be loud. Chicken Little has taken over their brain and is yelling, "The sky is falling, and toilets are breaking!" So they avoid their don't-wants, but they pay a huge price. They may never get what they want in life. Instead of analyzing, their inner Chicken Little closes their mind.

Mrs Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn't much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed… that nothing ever came up to your expectations. Well, perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either… they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Why do you have such a crappy attitude about math? I don't. I have a crappy attitude about everything.

The nasty voices are always on call.

I told Carolyn it was a great day for running, and she told me there was no such thing.

People think it's OK to harbor negative thoughts and feelings about other people. They think the other person doesn't know about it. I have news for you. We are all sending and receiving signals without realizing it. If you have negative thoughts and feelings about someone they know it. Don't kid yourself. They know it.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.

Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of others.

They don't want you to jet ski, they don't want you to smile.

Tears of joy are better than smiles of sorrow.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Nosotros, mientras tanto, vivimos en una era de miedo, negatividad y malas noticias. Las buenas noticias no venden porque no interesan a nadie.

Actualmente, la sexualidad ya no es el epítome del posible placer y la felicidad. Ya no está mistificada positivamente en tanto éxtasis o transgresión, sino negativamente, en tanto fuente de opresión, desigualdad, violencia, abuso e infección letal.

You're a glass-half-empty kind of guy, sir, aren't you? I don't even acknowledge the existence of the glass, son.

Cynicism is too easy, and it gets you nowhere.