Negative Quotes - Page 17

• If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

  Orrin Woodward

  Optimistic, Rooms, Positive Thoughts

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• Transform your world by transforming your internal state. Start by learning to let go of negative self judgment, and replace it with positive and loving thoughts about yourself. Be kind to yourself, and watch your external world change.

  Anita Moorjani

  Letting Go, Positive Thinking, Self

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Jun 17, 2012

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• I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

  Garry Shandling

  Failure, Emotional, Thinking

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• I can do most anything and not have a problem with it. The only time I have negative attention is when I run naked through the streets brandishing a handgun.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Running, Naked, Attention

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• Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• Marriages are much more likely to succeed when the couple experiences a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions whereas when the ratio approaches 1 to 1, marriages are more likely to end in divorce.

  John M. Gottman

  Couple, Divorce, Being Positive

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• Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Attitude, People, Perspective

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• The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

  Mark E. Hyman

  Pregnancy, Being Positive, News

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• If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.

  Emmet Fox

  Encouragement, Thinking, Want

  Emmet Fox (2010). “Make Your Life Worthwhile”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

  Ricky Gervais

  People, Entrepreneur, Annoying

  Twitter post from Jan 5, 2013

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• If only we would learn every day of our lives to overcome those things in our character which are negative, to let go and let God take them over, we would all know what it was to experience harmonious living.

  Albert E Cliffe

  Life, Letting Go, Character

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• Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

  Francis Crick

  Trying, Too Much, Messages

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• Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?

  Neil Young

  Song, World

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• The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

  Diogenes

  Gratitude, Judgement, Mind

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• Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

  Edward de Bono

  Gratitude, Ungrateful, Way

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• Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

  Gail Godwin

  Opportunity, People, Growth

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• Improve with each breath. Every negative vibration returns 10 fold.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Vibrations

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• Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

  Mary J. Blige

  Powerful, Negative Words, People

  Twitter post from Jun 07, 2012

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• I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.

  Alberto Moravia

  Writing, Thinking, Personality

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• The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.

  Jeff Galloway

  Journey, Challenges, Messages

  Jeff Galloway (2001). “Marathon: You Can Do It!”, p.80, Shelter Publications, Inc.

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• Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Believe

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• Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions

  A. R. Rahman

  Hatred, Different, World

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• Among Hispanics, there is little change in popularity from a grade point average of 1 through 2.5. After 2.5, the gradient turns sharply negative. A Hispanic student with a 4.0 grade point average is the least popular of all Hispanic students, and has 3 fewer friends than a typical white student with a 4.0 grade point average.

  Roland G. Fryer, Jr.

  Average, White, Typical

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• Consider the clinicaltrials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must sponsor clinicaltrials to show the Food and Drug Administration that the drug is safe and effective, usually as compared with a placebo or dummy pill. The results of all the trials (there may be many) are submitted to the FDA, and if one or two trials are positive—that is, they show effectiveness without serious risk—the drug is usually approved, even if all the other trials are negative.

  Marcia Angell

  Two, Effectiveness, Fda

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• A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

  Marcia Angell

  Eight, Drug, Three

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