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• Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Mistake, Ikea, People

  "The miracle of Älmhult" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2004.

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• We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.

  Douglas Crockford

  Long, People, Design

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.99, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite races — red, black, brown, and yellow. We are one of the few nations that still indulge in the death penalty for increasing numbers of these prisoners. We must become mindful of these negative things, since we need not support these actions of our nation to be affected negatively by their evolutionary impact, unless we mentally, verbally, and ultimately physically, disassociate ourselves from them.

  Robert Thurman

  Country, Impact, Race

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• The power is neutral. It cannot be divided into positive and negative energies. Power is power.

  Scott Cunningham

  Energy, Negative Energy, Divided

  Scott Cunningham (2012). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• But I have learned over the years that all I can do is reach for something difficult - try to get the colors right and the negative space, the angle of the light. And if a few people can see it, that has to be enough.

  Molly Gloss

  Light, Color, Years

  Molly Gloss (2014). “Falling from Horses”, p.307, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedom… the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims.

  Gary North

  Law, Foundation, Criminals

  Gary North (1990). “Victim's rights: the biblical view of civil justice”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists; and some positive ones when it implies finding something important, useful or beautiful. It thus links creativity and psychosis, genius and madness.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Beautiful, Creativity, Mean

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• A society that places a low value on its mothers and the process of birth will suffer an array of negative repercussions for doing so. Good beginnings make a positive difference in the world, so it is worth our while to provide the best possible care for mothers and babies throughout this extraordinarily influential part of life.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Mother, Baby, Differences

  Ina May Gaskin (2011). “Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us”, p.1, Seven Stories Press

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• Since hearing beauty in something is essentially a positive response and hearing ugliness is negative, might it ultimately be more difficult for an open-minded listener to define ugliness than it is to define beauty?

  Frank J. Oteri

  Might, Hearing, Open Minded

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• When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem, but in reality whatever problems we experience come from the side of the mind. If we were to respond to difficult situations with a positive or peaceful mind they would not be problems for us; indeed, we may even come to regard them as challenges or opportunities for growth and development. Problems arise only if we respond to difficulties with a negative state of mind. Therefore, if we want to be free from problems, we must transform our mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Positive, Buddhist, Attitude

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.5, Tharpa Publications US

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• One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.

  Jon Gordon

  Office, Environment, Miserable

  Jon Gordon (2012). “The Positive Dog: A Story About the Power of Positivity”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.

  Jon Gordon

  Morning, Positive Thinking, Choices

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons

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• Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.

  Jon Gordon

  Motivational, Nails, Prison

  Jon Gordon (2014). “The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.

  Misty Copeland

  Stay Strong, Motivation, Ballet

  "Misty Copeland, Chelsea Clinton, and other successful people share the advice they'd give their younger selves" by Elisa Jackson and Levo League, www.businessinsider.com. September 27, 2015.

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• To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

  Zeena Schreck

  Sex, Ordinary, May

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• Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

  Alex Cox

  Careers, Hollywood, Universal

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• No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

  Earl Butz

  Trying, Thinker

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• All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought

  Sydney Banks

  Feelings, Alive, Power Of Thought

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• Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment.

  Deepak Chopra

  People, Negativity, Energy

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.34, Amber-Allen Publishing

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  Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Hate, Mean, Cutting

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• Don’t allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Joy, Stealing

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2013

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• We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv e mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else.

  Deepak Chopra

  Silence, Mind, Purity

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• Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

  Michel Foucault

  Believe, Reality, Law

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• How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it -- you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

  Franco Harris

  Change, Attitude, Thinking

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• Worry is negative goal setting.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal, Worry, Settings

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