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• I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Song, Hate, Albums

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• You create your own luck by the way you play. There is no such luck as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and I'll have no part of it.

  Greg Norman

  Philosophy, Fate, Play

  FaceBook post by Greg Norman from Jan 16, 2017

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• Psychologically speaking, what is true requires no protection, and never becomes negative when challenged. On the other hand, what is false almost never stops trying to protect itself, which it does by finding fault with whatever or whoever challenges the false image behind which it always hides.

  Guy Finley

  Hands, Challenges, Trying

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• I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Fighting, Order

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• Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph. D. from Yale.

  Mary Blakely

  Mean, Kids, Yale

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom Motherhood Politics and Humble Pie”, Pocket

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• To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested in sustainable agriculture, environmental issues, human rights, and my interconnectedness in the web of life. It is a great pleasure for me to find products and practices that have a positive effect on living beings and the environment, rather than a negative one.

  Vesanto Melina

  Rights, Practice, Web Of Life

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• Until you understand your Core Story, whatever it is, and how it made you who you are today, your foundation will reflect only your unconscious beliefs about yourself, real or imagined, positive or negative. When you delve into your subconscious beliefs about your lot in life, whether you believe you deserve to be happy or sad, successful or unsuccessful, only then do you have the chance to change the story that is replaying over and over in your head and determining how you go through life.

  Lucinda Bassett

  Real, Believe, Successful

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• To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need to take responsibility, along with others, for cleaning it up. Each of us needs to look at our own behavior. Am I perpetuating and reinforcing the negative messages so pervasive in our culture, or am I seeking to challenge them?

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  Responsibility, Air, Justice

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• Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Appreciation, Perspective, Understanding

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• As negative thoughts produce negative actions, so positive thoughts produce positive actions.

  John C. Maxwell

  Stay Positive, Positive Thoughts, Action

  John C. Maxwell (1996). “The Winning Attitude: Your Pathway to Personal Success”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

  Brian Tracy

  Confidence, Self Esteem, People

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.37, Jaico Publishing House

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• What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional system, whether it’s economics, business or the way we live and surround ourselves, what we eat, without recognizing that there are severe negative externalities that are not being accounted for.

  Prince Charles

  Past, Years, People

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• Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.

  T. Harv Eker

  Successful, People, Rich

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• I like when somebody says something negative about me because I can put it back in their face

  Gilbert Arenas

  Faces, Because I Can, I Can

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• When you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts-thoughts that negate your highest idea about a thing-think again! I want you to do this, literally. If you think you are in a doldrum, in a pickle, and no good can come of this, think again. If you think the world is a bad place, filled with negative events, think again. If you think your life is falling apart, and it looks as if you'll never get it back together again, think again.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  "Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1996.

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• Best way to get away from negative feelings and emotions is to involve ourselves without getting involved. It comes by practice and is beneficial for our health; be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.

  Mahesh Babu

  Spiritual, Emotional, Practice

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• Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Player, Emotional, Giving

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• An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.

  Vernon Howard

  Gratitude, Challenges, Feelings

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• Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Challenges, Cynicism, Incessant

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• Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?

  Zig Ziglar

  Positivity, Influence, Sensitive

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• Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Hate, Feelings

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• Never under estimate the Power of the Mind. Persist in creating new thoughts to prevent falling back into negative patterns. It is an ongoing struggle and you have to commit to winning if you are to succeed.

  Bob Proctor

  Success, Struggle, Fall

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 08, 2013

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• Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.

  John C. Maxwell

  Past, Impact, Influence

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The greatest negative in the universe is the Cross, for with it God wiped out everything that was not of Himself: the greatest positive in the universe is the resurrection, for through it God brought into being all.

  Watchman Nee

  Resurrection, Crosses, Universe

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.215, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wisdom, Mind, Looks

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.115, Penguin

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