Negative Quotes - Page 31

• Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

  Michael Bassey

  Praying, Downfall, Standing

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• Labor will hurt. Probably a lot. But whether this is negative is another matter... A laboring woman can be in a great deal of pain, yet feel loved and supported and exhilarated by the creative forces flowing through her body and her ability to meet labor's challenges.

  Henci Goer

  Hurt, Pain, Creative

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.139, Penguin

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• You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway. If you can overcome the negative energy coming from your tired body or unmotivated mind, you will grow and become better. It won’t be the best workout you have, you won’t accomplish as much as what you usually do when you actually feel good, but that doesn’t matter. Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Workout, Tired, Games

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• Gratitude is the key to happiness. When gratitude is practiced regularly and from the heart, it leads to a richer, fuller and more complete life... It is impossible to bring more abundance into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you already have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are negative emotions and they will attract more of those feelings and events into your life.

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Gratitude, Heart, Keys

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• The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

  Criss Jami

  Crazy, Ambition, Mad

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• I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.

  Peter Steele

  Thinking, Type

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• We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative. A person is great not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. Asceticism and mortification are not the ends of a Christian life; they are only the means. The end is charity. Penance merely makes an opening in our ego in which the Light of God can pour. As we deflate ourselves, God fills us. And it is God’s arrival that is the important event.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Weed, Mean

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• Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Hate, Party, Thinking

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• If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

  Sister Souljah

  Negativity, Ifs

  Sister Souljah (2004). “The Coldest Winter Ever”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.

  Donald Knuth

  Strong, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Computer Programming as an Art". Communications of the ACM, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 1974.

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• I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.

  Gertrude Berg

  Thinking, Anxiety, Needs

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• Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.

  Charlotte Arnold

  School, People, Pockets

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• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  Carl David Anderson

  Numbers, Track, Majority

  Carl David Anderson (1937). “The Production and Properties of Positrons ...”

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• Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

  Hans Haacke

  Educational, Museums, Views

  "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere". Book by Michael Kimmelman, 1998.

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• I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

  Curtis Jackson

  Thinking, People, Perception

  "I'm not trying to save the world" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2006.

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• Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Reality, Judging

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• Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

  Aldo Leopold

  Exercise, Skills, Abstinence

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• My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all.

  Cindy McCain

  Husband, My Husband, Campaigning

  "NBC's Ann Curry: John McCain is Old, He's 71. Did I Mention He's 71?". "Today" with Ann Curry, www.newsbusters.org. May 8, 2008.

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• Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

  Terence Tao

  Surprise, Stranger, Mets

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• There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

  Serge Lang

  Hiv, Disease, Defining

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• A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.

  Bruce Nash

  Reality, Enough, Harps

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• I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.

  Franklin Raines

  Thinking, Years, Risk

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• Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. And you don't have to be a poet or a philosopher to know which is best.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Attitude, Fate, People

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• Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail on water all around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Thinking, People, Justice

  "Words of Wisdom to Live by: An Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed Form". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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• Nothing will infect you with a negative view of the world faster than hanging around people with harmful belief systems.

  Randy Gage

  Views, People, Marketing

  Randy Gage (2006). “Why You're Dumb, Sick and Broke...And How to Get Smart, Healthy and Rich!”, p.24, Internet Profit Kit

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