“Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up semen would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.” IfsCareMy OwnRoomsPositiveHairGainsNegativeWeightImpactCaringTake CareTake Care Of YourselfWeighingCaring Too Much Book:Openly Straight Source: Openly Straight
“People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony.” PeopleLifeLittlesFormGrowthConsequenceGainsNegativePersonal GrowthInvestingAcquireAcquisitionUsefulnessGluttonyNegative Consequences Author:Ray Dalio
“It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.” PeopleThinkingGivingSelfFilmPassionGainsNegativeObsessionThinking About YouNegative Experiences Author:Stanley Kubrick
“Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed.” MayImportantPlayProblemProcessUnderstandingRolesTheorySourceModelsSolutionsDiscoveryGainsNegativeStructureConclusionDataPushingPrecisePositivelyInadequateInadequacyDeep UnderstandingNegative And Positive Book:Syntactic Structures Source: Syntactic Structures
“Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in criticisms of religion even clarity ceases to be a virtue and sounds like aggressive hostility. A politician may attack an opponent scathingly across the floor of the House and earn plaudits for his robust pugnacity. But let a soberly reasoning critic of religion employ what would in other contexts sound merely direct or forthright, and it will be described as a 'rant'.” MayBookHouseSoundVirtuePoliticianGainsNegativeDirectCriticismPraiseCriticsTheatreCeaseClarityOpponentsReasoningReviewsAggressiveHostilityDelightedRobustRantCriticism Of Religion Book:The God Delusion Source: The God Delusion
“I experienced firsthand not only the mental and physical damage being unhealthy does to a person, but I also recognized the discrimination many overweight people faced because of their public image. And I, like everyone else, is susceptible to falling into negative patterns that can cause weight gain.” PeoplePersonsDoeFallCausesGainsNegativeWeightPatternsDiscriminationDamageUnhealthyOverweightSusceptiblePublic Image Author:Maria Kang
“The interests behind fracking are very powerful and they've managed to control the dialogue for a while, because they have forced people to sign disclosure agreements; people who have had negative experiences who are not able to speak out because they've signed disclosure agreements with the gas companies. Things like this. They've managed to strangle the opposing viewpoint, but it does seem like the people who are against fracking have started to gain some traction and the realities of what an environmental nightmare it is are starting to become known.” PeopleDoeRealitySeemsAbleSpeakInterestPowerfulBehindsCompanyKnownGainsNegativeEnvironmentalStartingDialogueGasNightmareAgreementVery PowerfulOpposingViewpointsSpeaks OutDisclosureFrackingTractionNegative Experiences Author:Joan Osborne
“Self-body hate, like any hate or other strong negative emotion, contributes to unneeded weight gain by triggering junk-food cravings.” SelfBodyHateStrongEmotionGainsNegativeWeightCravingBody ImageJunkJunk FoodNegative Emotions Author:M.J. Rose