Quotes About Negativity

We are instructed to do the negative; the positive is already within us.

We have to be cautious, we can't let negativity spread like wildfire.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'they.' You might have a personal 'they.' They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don't like winners; they don't like people who's blessed. So everybody's got a different 'they.'

What annoys me most is it is so easy to focus on negatives all the time. All you hear is a lot of people - whether it is industry leaders or politicians - complaining about everything. I don't deny things are not always perfect, but the stage it gets is huge compared with the simple things that make people happy, like winning a football match.

People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

I think all the garbage in the world is thanks to a very small handful of idiots.

Part of the problem with politics is we don't have people who want to get in the fray because of guys like Sen. McConnell, who essentially invented negative campaigning.

It was not in her nature to be negative. Why had she failed to remember all the victories?

I had been sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity which was so much the malaise of my generation, my sex and my class.

Si te dieras cuenta de lo poderosos que son tus pensamientos, no volverías a pensar nada negativo jamás." Peace Pilgrim

The real work was the identification of those aspects of yourself that led to what he called "the negative emotions"—anger, envy, bitterness, greed, cynicism, hatred and the like—things that poured hurt into an already overfull world.

To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before." --

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.

Dès que dans l'existence ça va un tout petit peu mieux, on ne pense plus qu'aux saloperies.

They smiled at the good, and frowned at the bad, and sometimes they were very sad.

Finally I scrawled at the bottom of the epistle that I truly feared for this woman. We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.

the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.

Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative. In the negative sentiment override state, people draw lasting conclusions about each other. If their spouse does something positive, it's a selfish person doing a positive thing. It's really hard to change those states, and those states determine whether one party tries to repair things, the other party sees that as repair or hostile manipulation.

All positive traits, states, and experiences have costs that at high levels may begin to outweigh their benefits.

Judgment is a negative frequency.

Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.