Negative Quotes - Page 7

• Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Roots

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.33, Knopf

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• Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.

  Erik Larson

  Dream, Fear, Sleep

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• Carry on. Things will work out. If you keep trying and praying and working, things will work out. They always do. If you want to die at an early age, dwell on the negative. Accentuate the positive, and you’ll be around for a while.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Work Out, Age, Trying

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• The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.

  Ansel Adams

  Score, Composer, Print

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• Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.

  Kenneth Burke

  Animal, Men, Order

  Kenneth Burke (1973). “Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method”, p.16, Univ of California Press

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• If you find yourself focusing on negative scenarios, ask us angels to transmute this fearful energy into love.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Finding Yourself, Energy

  Doreen Virtue (2008). “Daily Guidance from Your Angels”, p.332, Hay House, Inc

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• If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Rhonda Byrne (2012). “The Magic”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is simple. Your life is made up of only two kinds of things – positive things and negative things.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspiring, Simple, Two

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivation, Healthy, Source

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• No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

  Charles Lyell

  Facts, Valleys, Tools

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

  Curtis Jackson

  Energy, Opponents, Defeat

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• Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But I've worn underwear every day of my life and the fact that I'm painted as this exhibitionist is a little annoying. It's become a meme, I guess. Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is. If I get mad at it I'll look like a douchebag. But it's silly.

  Jon Hamm

  Believe, Silly, Talking

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• Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Attachment, Hatred

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• At the end of the day, for people in this position, you just need to make something that feels like you're expressing yourself honestly, something that you'd want to listen to. The rest of the aesthetic is kind of bullshit, and I don't mean that in a negative way - just that it's a choice.

  Robin Pecknold

  Mean, People, Bullshit

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• People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!

  Mark Hamill

  Character, Thinking, People

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• Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

  Horace Bushnell

  Taken, Heart, Names

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• And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.

  Nolan Ryan

  Opportunity, Organization, Appreciate

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• What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression

  Michel Foucault

  Running, Needs, Body

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation.

  Leon Krier

  Law, Cities, Space

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.439, Island Press

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• A negative attitude toward others can never bring me success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Attitude, Think And Grow Rich, Think Rich Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.48, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Everything is connected. Connectivity is going to be the key to addressing these issues, like contaminants and climate change. They're not just about contaminants on your plate. They're not just about the ice depleting. They're about the issue of humanity. 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, Keys, Russia

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• Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?"

  Tony Buzan

  Motivational, Growing Up, Mistake

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• Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Jealous, Envy, Ego

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• We would never move forward in the face of negative emotion. There are many people who would teach you otherwise. They say, you've got to face fear to get over it. And all they do is desensitize themselves to the point that they get themselves into situations where they have no idea what's going on, and the end of them comes rather abruptly... And then everyone calls them brave.

  Esther Hicks

  Moving Forward, Ideas, People

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• Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

  Thomas Sowell

  Social Values, Safety, Diversity

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.110, Basic Books

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