Negative Quotes - Page 35

• People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  People, Ratios, Emotion

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• Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.

  Joel Brown

  Live Life, Self, Desire

  Twitter post from Mar 17, 2017

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• Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

  Criss Jami

  Tolerance, Opinion, Judgment

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.29, Criss Jami

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• It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.

  Criss Jami

  Wise, Ignorance, Eye

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.19, Criss Jami

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• History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, Teacher, Opposites

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.47, Criss Jami

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• I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Thinking, Healthy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.52, Criss Jami

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• What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Doe, Morality, Empty

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Vices, Baths

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.184

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• There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Say Anything, Groups

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• It's very hard, I think, for critics to write positive reviews, because there's not that much to say about something you like. You can kind of say 'I really like that band' and then if you're forced to fill up the rest of an article, you've got to start saying heady things. It's much easier to say negative things in a review.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Writing, Thinking, Band

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.

  Chaka Khan

  Morning, Men, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.

  Albert Camus

  Self Worth, Men, Greek

  "The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.

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• Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.

  Anthony de Mello

  Pain, Stupid, Rain

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.80, Image

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• Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Inner Strength, Faces, Defeat

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• Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu«  ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Satisfaction

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• Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

  Dean Koontz

  Faith, Expectations, Worry

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.1153, Bantam

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• The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Principles, Known

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Educational, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “In praise of idleness: and other essays”

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• Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative. This low quality is not just a vague, woolly-headed, crypto-religious, metaphysical abstraction. It is an experience. It is not a judgment about an experience. It is not a description of experience. The value itself is an experience. As such it is completely predictable. It is verifiable by anyone who cares to do so.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Religious, Intellectual, Quality

  "Lila : An Inquiry Into Morals". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1991.

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• Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sports, Running, Mistake

  "Ego and Mouth". www.realclearpolitics.com. November 2, 2008.

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• It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Men

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• Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

  Amy Lee

  Beautiful, Outlets, Music Is

  "Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs". VH1 News, September 18, 2006.

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• I always imagine the world and myself above it and how minute one negative person's voice is in comparison to the amount of people that are in the world.

  Jessie J

  Voice, People, World

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

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• Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

  Anton Chekhov

  Creative, Criticism, Isolation

  Anton Chekhov's letter to his brother A.P. Chekhov, May 10, 1886.

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