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• If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.

  Erykah Badu

  Hanging Out, Invites, Ifs

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• They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But if you get rid of that negativity, which goes away naturally when you transcend every day, these ideas are more freely flowing, and you get happy in the doing. You get fresh and inspiring ideas, and a bigger picture starts to emerge of the world and life. It's very good for the artist, businessman, fisherman, and any kind of person really.

  David Lynch

  Stress, Artist, Ideas

  "An Ocean of Solutions: The David Lynch Interview". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've had so many critics over the past couple of months. I've had so many people who said I'm too old for this, I am burnt out. But, you know what, I am so hungry to make a career for myself. I was able to turn all this negativity into something positive.

  Ashley Wagner

  Couple, Past, Careers

  "Ashley Wagner shatters records for third U.S. figure skating title" by Nick Zaccardi, olympics.nbcsports.com. January 24, 2015.

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• People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Views, People, Alarms

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.44, Penguin

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• Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Return, Belief

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.145, eBookIt.com

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• bad news travels faster than good.

  Catherine the Great

  News, Faster, Bad News

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• Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me this problem comes from stress, pent up anger, frustration, and all kinds of negativity within human beings.

  David Lynch

  Stress, Frustration, Domestic Violence

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas.

  David Lynch

  Selfish, Creativity, Ideas

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• Negative thoughts were treated by Cherokee healers with the same medicines as wounds, headaches, or physical illness. It was believed that unchecked negative thoughts can permeate the being and manifest themselves in negative actions.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Medicine, Negative, Action

  Wilma Mankiller, Gloria Steinem (2016). “Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women”, p.47, Fulcrum Publishing

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• The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there's just no point in sharing.

  Stephen Amell

  Joy, Honest, I've Learned

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• Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.

  James Blunt

  Reading, Mean, Media

  "My body and soul". www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• The Internet seems like a safe house for the opposite mentality, for cynics and for jerks and for people who want to lash out. And it's a valid thing. It's a valid forum and I'm not going say that they aren't valid feelings. But it's sad. Considering the potential that something like the Internet, that connects so many people, has for good. I think it's sad that it's used so often for nothing but unfounded, overzealous negativity.

  Chris Gethard

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For me, possibility, progress, growth, those things are very.. they feel very good. It doesn't usually come with negativity. I don't really mind sucking at something as long as I'm getting a little bit better at it along the way.

  Demetri Martin

  Long, Growth, Mind

  Source: www.maximumfun.org

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• Just as a gardener must tend his or her plot, keeping out the weeds, you must tend the garden of your mind, weeding out the thoughts of lack, limitation, and negativity. You must nurture and tend the thoughts of happiness, success, and purpose.

  Randy Gage

  Weed, Garden, Mind

  Randy Gage (2003). “Prosperity Mind: How to Harness the Power of Thought”, p.25, Internet Profit Kit

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• Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.

  Rick Pitino

  Morning, Attitude, Way

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• Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?

  Sania Mirza

  Rebel, Students, Married

  "Successful People Are Targeted; I’m More Careful Now: Sania Mirza". Interview with Sharmistha Chaudhuri, www.hindustantimes.com. November 24, 2013.

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• Obama shows no sign of easing up on negativity.

  Ron Fournier

  Shows

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• Those who have not become enlightened will have to return to another, denser planet that is still involved with negativity, to work out their remaining karma.

  Dolores Cannon

  Karma, Work Out, Return

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• You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's expense. It's sarcasm; it's nasty. Kids grow up hearing that, and they think that's what humor is, and they think it's OK. But that negativity permeates the entire planet.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Growing Up, Kids, Sarcasm

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.

  Brian Tracy

  America, Goal, Achieve

  Source: productivemag.com

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• Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long as you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.

  Becky G

  Believe, Long, People

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• Negativity is born in the gap where love has been excluded.

  Deepak Chopra

  Gaps, Born, Has Beens

  Twitter post from Apr 26, 2012

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• To some degree, the critic arises out of that negativity bias in that our brains are oriented towards threat and toward survival. The critic really started as a survivor mechanism in early infancy and childhood when we were trying to navigate our early family system and culture; when we're learning how to fit in so we could optimize that flow of love and affection. It was an internal voice telling us to shut certain patterns and reactions down, that negativity bias that's always looking for what's wrong, looking for the threat.

  Mark Coleman

  Voice, Childhood, Brain

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Nigeria is so peculiar and dramatic. Even talking about the potentials before we talk about the negativities, Nigeria is a nation for perpetual study. I think in Nigeria, it is the potential which hits people and makes them believe in Nigeria. It tends to make them react when they see potentials being wasted and it is a tragedy to see potentials wasted. But paradoxically, it is a realization of the existence, that positive, that keeps many Nigerians and even foreign people going.

  Wole Soyinka

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• My middle school experience was pretty hellish. There was a lot of negativity, a lot of bullying and a lot of insecurity. It was the reason I ended up going to my arts high school because I was pretty bullied.

  Zoey Deutch

  Bullying, Art, School

  "Zoey Deutch and Ry Russo-Young discuss Before I Fall". Interview With Marriska Fernandes, www.tribute.ca. March 2, 2017.

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