Quotes About Negativity

I mean look, everyone wants to do the story on the rising star, and when the star is up, they all want to be the one to bring it down because that's what people care about, right? They only care about the rise and the fall, so it's extreme positivity and extreme negativity.

Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.

Once you start rooting against somebody, you're always going to look for the negative in everything they do.

My dad used to get to the nastiest letters. But somebody had to take the time to type it, stamp it, send it to him, send it to the radio station. And I mean nasty stuff. It's not like nasty people with nasty opinions just popped up out of nowhere.

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.

Courtney Love gave me advice on how to stay focused. She told me I have a lot of positivity and I have a lot of light and to just stay on that path, because it's easy to become affected by the negativity.

If anyone says negative things about me, then it stays with me for many years.

One more thing about the backlash personality type: every single one of the bitter self-made men of my youth was a believer in the power of positive thinking. If you just had a sunny disposish and kept everlastingly at it, they thought, you were bound to succeed. The contradiction between their professed positiveness and their actual negativity about nearly everything never seemed to occur to them.

This can sound rather grim, but it does have a positive flip-side: It suggests that our negative assessments of other people are less likely than our positive assessments to be correct, and we should give our foes another chance.

My point,' I said, 'is that there's hell in every handshake, never mind an outright and humiliating insult.

Public debate over almost everything devolves into trench warfare, in which the most important goal is to establish that the other person is wrong.

The disturbing attitudes and negative emotions, such as clinging attachment, anger, and ignorance are the real source of our unhappiness.

The Buddhist attitude is that it doesn't matter how many delusions you have, how confused you are, how much sin or negativity you have created, it is possible, absolutely possible, to totally eradicate all of it.

We let ourselves be at the mercy of our thoughts and our thoughts at the mercy of our negative emotions, in this way we undermine ourselves. —A TIBETAN SAYING

People abuse for no reason, because they can do it anonymously. There's a lot of negativity, criticism and hatred as an artist grows.

I feel like you'll be most successful in life if you just try to block the noise, sometimes the hate can be louder than the love.

You get negative comments even if you are not talking. So you can't be scared of negative comments from people.

Every now and then, I have these moments where I feel somebody needs to be told to just stop. Sometimes, they would write nasty things, but generally, I just don't give them time and attention. I just skim and read but don't go through the comments completely.

Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.

I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.

He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent.

It is a fact that negative thought will attract negative thought, and positive thought will attract positive thought.

Negative conversation adversely affects circumstances. Certainly talk of a tense and nervous nature enhances inner agitation.