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Quotes About Negativity

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
~ Elton John
I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.
~ Josh Radnor
I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.
~ Jason Calacanis
Comment threads are the new therapy for people. They just go and post the worst things they can think of because they feel bad, and then other people start attacking them, and then they attack back.
~ Chris Hardwick
The Gottman Institute's study about arguments in long-term relationships concludes that couples with the best chance at long-term success are the ones with a low negativity threshold: if something's wrong, they speak up about it immediately. That's something I've taken on board.
~ Hannah Fry
I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God's Word that showed me I wasn't living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.
~ Joyce Meyer
If you are going to talk negative about a place, you're almost throwing yourself out to begin with because golf is a mental game.
~ Jordan Spieth
A lot of television stuff is mean-spirited, and I think that's how political advertising got so mean-spirited, to where people are throwing things at the television set every time we have an election.
~ Stan Freberg
I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
~ Yuna
Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something.
~ Allen Iverson
Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.
~ Pope Francis
No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.
~ Sophocles
And in fact, psychologists draw a straight line of causation between chronic rumination and chronic depression. Dwelling on the negative and berating yourself is bad for your health, physical and mental. And the longer your mind is consumed with gloomy self-accusations, the worse you will feel.
~ Sally Helgesen
People see what they want to see. People say what they like to say. People hear what they always try to listen. People always in busy to put you down or break you down. They won't give you the courage to go ahead. They always after you and try their best to end you. But never give up. Never let yourself down. You should and must keep it in your mind.
~ Salman Aziz
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.
~ Eckhart Tolle
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
~ Robert Kennedy
Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another profession.
~ Lora Leigh
I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death and time elaborated in phenomenology.
~ Ray Brassier
Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts...in negative space.
~ Marilyn Manson
I am spiritually free when my spiritual and emotional state of being is healthy. I am spiritually free when I am emotionally well-balanced and when I desire to be a faithful, hopeful, and loving person. I am spiritually unfree when my negative emotions and temptations have gotten the better of me, when I am too angry, sad, tempted, or scared to think straight.
~ Mark E. Thibodeaux
Some men there are with minds so strangely fashioned, that they extract an ill from every good and grief from every blessing.
~ Anthony Trollope
I saw in myself a leader who was so sure of the brilliance of his own ideas that he couldn't allow brilliance in anyone else's; a leader who felt he was so 'enlightened' that he needed to see workers negatively in order to prove his enlightenment; a leader so driven to be the best that he made sure no one else could be as good as he was.
~ Arbinger Institute
Le cattive notizie comportano in qualche modo la garanzia della propria verità. Sono le buone notizie che hanno bisogno di conferma
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Technology has become the way Western man perceives progress. But technology itself is a reflection of how we see ourselves. If the negativity is in us, it will appear somewhere in our technology.
~ Shirley MacLaine