Negative Quotes - Page 36

• To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Mean, Cutting

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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  I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

  Channing Tatum

  People, Insane, Want

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've got great genetics from parents, and I'm not moaning that I have such a hard life. Trust me; it's worked out so much more in the positive then the negative.

  Channing Tatum

  Parent, Hard Life, Trust Me

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If you think about determination, if people have a heart and are determined, they can get to that place. But there are a lot of negative people who were enormously determined. All the Nazis were determined. They wanted to murder everyone. Everyone with a bad heart, who doesn't care about people, I wish they hadn't started.

  Eddie Izzard

  Determination, Heart, Thinking

  "I Believe That Eddie Izzard Is Our Future". Interview with Ali MacLean, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2010.

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• There's a lot of negative things trying to pull people down, and I think people respond when you tell them that hey, there are good things up ahead.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Pastor Joel Osteen on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, People

  "Pastor Joel Osteen on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.

  Adam Sandler

  Horse, Fake, Hats

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, "You're based." They'd use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, "Yeah, I'm based." I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive.

  Lil B

  Being Yourself, Fun, Mean

  "Lil B Talks Getting Sucker Punched, Gay Rumors, & Drake Envy". Interview with Ernest Baker, www.complex.com. June 10, 2010.

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• The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two.

  Kendrick Lamar

  War, Opposites, Two

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Speak not through the positive mind or the negative mind, but from the neutral mind.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Communication, Mind, Speak

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• I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some are very knowledgeable about painting. But it isn't something I have any influence over, so there isn't any point in worrying about it.

  Peter Doig

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• I know that there are some people who are perpetually negative. I sincerely believe that if you want to fly with the eagles you cannot afford to walk with the turkeys. I will walk away from those people when they start to attack the vision.

  Phil Pringle

  Believe, Eagles, Turkeys

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• I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

  Srikumar Rao

  Positive Thinking, Being Positive, Fans

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• It is impossible to park a Ferrari (healthy new belief systems) in a space that is taken up by an old wreck (negative old belief systems).

  Melanie

  Taken, Space, Healthy

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• Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Faith, Intellectual, Laziness

  "Stranger in a Strange Land " by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 233), 1991.

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• The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  God, Pain, Play

  "The Phenomenology of Spirit". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1807.

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• Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.

  William Faulkner

  Purity, States, Contrary

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.116, Modern Library

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• The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.

  George H. Smith

  Utterance, Way, Christianity

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• Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.

  Marion Woodman

  Mother, Mean, Eating Disorder

  "Addiction to Perfection". Book by Marion Woodman, 1982.

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• In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

  Max Beerbohm

  Character, Class, Two

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.81, 1st World Publishing

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• He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.

  Valerie Solanas

  Hate, Twilight, Feelings

  "SCUM Manifesto". Book by Valerie Solanas, p. 1, 1967.

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• How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?

  Gloria Estefan

  World, This World

  "Live, Art and Spirituality". Speech at Florida International University, October 14, 2006.

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• The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.

  Marvin Bower

  Differences, People, Information

  Marvin Bower (1997). “The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders”, p.34, Harvard Business Press

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• Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Law, Energy, Principles

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.264, Macmillan

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• This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

  Billy Corgan

  World, Reactions, Response

  Guitar World, July 1998.

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