Quotes About Negativity

Criticizing yourself all the time or being overly judgmental of a situation is like wearing dark sunglasses indoors.

believes the world is against him. Nothing

The cynics may be the loudest voices, but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.

What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen teenager.

Sometimes we need to heed our fears and negative thoughts, and at all times we need to be alert to the world outside ourselves, even when that includes absorbing bad news and entertaining the views of "negative" people.

Purge everyone who "brings you down," and you risk being very lonely or, what is worse, cut off from reality.

There are some people who hate for no reason at all. They just simply hate. They do not realize that their unjustified hatred inevitably turns inward to destroy them. Yes, it is self-destructive in the long run.

It is called prospect theory, and it was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. What the theory claims is that evaluations are relative to a baseline. A given experience will feel positive if it's an improvement on what came before and negative if it's worse than what came before.

counterfactual thinking is usually triggered by the occurrence of something unpleasant, something that itself produces a negative emotion.

But even things not there have weight. Negative weight which is the worst kind.

The children of blame are cynicism and hopelessness.

The survival response of popular culture is cynicism—"just lower your expectations of life to the point that you aren't disappointed by anyone or anything.

fallaciously pessimistic.

People dread losses more than they look forward to gains, that they dwell on setbacks more than the savor good fortune, and that they are more stubd by criticism then they are heartened by praise.

If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Some people degenerate into the hell of resentment and the hatred of Being,

Na verdade, ficamos mais negativos após uma perda de determinado tamanho do que nos sentimos bem com um ganho de tamanho idêntico. A dor é mais potente do que o prazer, e a ansiedade mais forte do que a esperança.

For such individuals, the world of experience is insufficient and evil—so to hell with everything!

Referring to my mental process as "thinking" was probably a stretch. It felt more like a broken record, and the part it kept skipping back to was the part where the world sucked, I sucked, and I was an idiot for thinking things would ever get any better.

But just because you get distracted by the silver lining for a little while, that doesn't mean there's not still a huge dark cloud behind it.

Assim é o mundo, povoado de céticos e negativistas, amarrados, como bois na canga, à ordem e à lei, aos procedimentos habituais, ao papel selado.

That'll show them," I said, then realized that sarcasm was probably a bad idea at this point. "Come on, Gabe. You can't pay attention to jerks like this. You know what I always say—never let an asshole rent space in your head.

It's like . . . if you surround yourself with good people, it makes you a better person. Brings out the best in you. Surround yourself with bad people, it brings out your worst.