Quotes About Negativity

An optimist sees and opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Evening news is where they begin with "Good evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

If you put negative things out about anyone every day, they're gonna start believing it, sorta like propaganda if you think about it.

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz--everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling of charity which came to him through his religion sufficed only to temper his disgust and change it to boredom. . . .

Soy el negativo absoluto, la encarnación de la nada. Lo que se desea y no se puede obtener, lo que se sueña porque no puede existir, ahí se encuentra mi reino vano y ahí está establecido el trono que no me fue otorgado.

Tedium … To suffer without suffering, to want without desire, to think without reason … It's like being possessed by a negative demon

To be a pessimist is to see everything tragically, an attitude that's both excessive and uncomfortable.

I feel this because I feel nothing. I think this because this is nothing. Nothing, nothing, part of the night and the silence and what I share with them of vacancy, of negativity, of in-betweenness, a gap between me and myself, something forgotten by some god or other … 442

I avoid social media and articles with negative comments about myself, because the first few times that I got called 'fat' broke my heart; it absolutely destroyed me. It's awful when someone says something like that to you.

There's glimpses where you feel good out there, and some where you don't.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

You see the comments made about me on the Internet, and the Internet is a negatively-charged machine when it comes down to talking fighters.

I am someone who can't hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don't carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that's the only way to be happy and peaceful.

People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.

Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

After reading the book 'The Secret,' it really changed my life because they made it visual and you saw how when someone thinks negative they attract negativity. A self-fulfilling prophecy whether it was negative or positive is basically the whole concept. Whatever you think, your mind is going to reproduce.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

Why antagonize somebody for no reason? Why try to garner attention by doing something negative? Why not do something positive on your own merits, instead of somebody else, whether it's to try to antagonize them or draw their ire, or even to have them help you out.

Like virtually all of the women I know, I spent my teenage years battling with my body and feeling I wasn't good enough. A lot of that negativity is because I was pursuing a career in modeling and was told countless times that my body was too big. My hips and thighs were too wide.

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.