Negative Quotes - Page 33

• Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

  Frank Sinatra

  People, Aphrodisiac, Rock N Roll

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

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• The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Fun, Hippie, Offering

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

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• We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Attitude, Cynical, Hot

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• Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.

  Bobby Knight

  Reality, Optimism, Wish

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• Spaces between the forms, or the negative shapes, play just as great a role as the positives and they enable you to check the accuracy of your drawing. The positives make the negatives and negatives make the positives.

  Stan Smith

  Negatives Make, Play, Drawing

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• There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that's inherent - their femininity - in any way that might be considered seductive.

  Demi Moore

  Attitude, Ideas, Clothes

  "From high earner to highbrow" by Mark Morris, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2000.

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• Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.… The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Jesus, Simple

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• Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

  Leonard Orr

  Boredom, Effort, Used

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• I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Self, Done, Belief

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• The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Teacher, Light, Drawing

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?

  Kirstie Alley

  People, Goal, Choices

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• Competition can be viewed in two ways. It can be viewed in a negative light and be seen as destructive, but one can also have the view that it is competition that drives people and institutions to higher and higher levels of excellence and, therefore, to more and more opportunity.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Opportunity, Light, Views

  "Ethics, Enterprise, and the Multinational Corporation". Acton Institute Interview, acton.org. July 20, 2010.

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• Resilience is the maintenance of high levels of positive affect and well-being in the face of adversity. It is not that resilient individuals never experience negative affect, but rather that the negative affect does not persist.

  Richard Davidson

  Adversity, Survival, Resilience

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• Have to and get to?both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

  Michael Kitson

  Inspiration, Positivity, Choices

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• Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no longer an attraction. So, I think that the dropping of the denominational label is to become more generic, less of a threat, less of a reminder of negative stereotypes if you've walked away from church.

  Eddie Gibbs

  Jesus, Thinking, Church

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• Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.

  Adyashanti

  Doubt, Cynicism

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• Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.

  Robert Muller

  Forgiveness, Self, Forgiving

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• Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

  Betty Eadie

  Heart, Optimism, Joy

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• If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

  Betty Eadie

  Silence, Our Words, Understood

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• So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

  Joseph Barbera

  Long, Important, Would Be

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• Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we love and desire what we should be rejecting, we are in conflict with our true selves. That's when the negative energies catch us and use our weapons against us. Instead of taking up what we have to defend ourselves, we put our swords in the hands of our enemies and make them attack us.

  Teresa Giudice

  Attachment, Self, Hands

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• Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Women, Slave, Property

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• The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Average, Trying

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (1993). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year”, Touchstone

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• A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Positive Thinking, Looks, Doe

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• There is no greater block to world peace or inner peace than fear. What we fear we tend to develop an unreasoning hatred for, so we come to hate and fear. This not only injures us psychologically and aggravates world tension, but through such negative concentration we tend to attract the things we fear. If we fear nothing and radiate love, we can expect good things to come. How much this world needs the message and example of love and of faith!

  Peace Pilgrim

  Hate, Block, Hatred

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