Negative Quotes - Page 18

• I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.

  Deepika Padukone

  Careers, Way, Knocked Down

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life’s traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the positive.

  James W. Pennebaker

  Writing, Emotional, Benefits

  James W. Pennebaker (2011). “The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us”, p.14, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Mind, Needs, Awareness

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.238, Nilgiri Press

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• The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. ‘Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Artist

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• Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress.
  Thinking, negative thinking causes stress.
  The real cause of all problems lie in our thoughts, not in things or circumstances.
  You and I possess the power to change our thoughts.
  It is our greatest power - the power to choose.
  If you are feeling stressful, choose to relax.
  Look at your problems as a stranger might then do something about them - NOW!

  Bob Proctor

  Jobs, Real, Stress

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 08, 2012

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• The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Self, People, Pessimistic

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.99, Penguin

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• Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

  Harold Stephen Black

  Feedback, Performances, Amplifiers

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• I think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a matter of your attitude. Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

  Marla Runyan

  Wisdom, Attitude, Thinking

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• Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions.

  Ed Seykota

  Pride, Emotional, Greed

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

  Shawn Achor

  Motivation, Stress, Creativity

  "The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work". Book by Shawn Achor, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Jul 22, 2011

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• I don't want to make this sound negative at all, but in the best way possible I freaking give up. I give up. You can't try and make your life perfect. I'm just trying to have a good time, and I'm just trying to appreciate the things that I have around me. I give up on the 'dream' dream. I think that it's all a dream. I think it's all wonderful and terrible. And I give up in the nicest way.

  Fiona Apple

  Dream, Giving Up, Thinking

  "Fiona Apple: 'I Don't Really Have A Plan'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 10, 2012.

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• I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Thinking, Negativity, Live For Today

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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