Negative Quotes - Page 38

• Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

  Jerry Harrison

  Thinking, Creative, Pressure

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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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• I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.

  Louise Hay

  Reality, Mind, Thinker

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Oct 08, 2016

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• Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Positive Thinking, Worst Case Scenario, Anxiety

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• The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Sadness, Insecure, Effort

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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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• One positive step can put an end to negative momentum. Now is when you can take it.

  Ralph Marston

  Momentum, Steps, Ends

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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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• Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

  Ben Goldacre

  Motivation, Cancer, Inspiration

  A Rhetoric of Public Bias: How Doctors Are Mislead About the Drugs They Prescribe, delivered September 2012

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• The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Motivation, Inspiration, Happy Marriage

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• Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.

  David Brooks

  Talking, Years, Interesting

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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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• What we do every day - whether you live in
  Mexico, the United States, Russia, China
  can have a very negative impact on
  an entire way of life for an entire people
  far away from that source

  Sheila Watt-Cloutier

  Impact, Russia, People

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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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• We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.

  Douglas Crockford

  Long, People, Design

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.99, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite races — red, black, brown, and yellow. We are one of the few nations that still indulge in the death penalty for increasing numbers of these prisoners. We must become mindful of these negative things, since we need not support these actions of our nation to be affected negatively by their evolutionary impact, unless we mentally, verbally, and ultimately physically, disassociate ourselves from them.

  Robert Thurman

  Country, Impact, Race

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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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• The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedom… the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims.

  Gary North

  Law, Foundation, Criminals

  Gary North (1990). “Victim's rights: the biblical view of civil justice”, Inst for Christian Economics

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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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