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“I do consider myself to be a positive person. I'd much rather have my energy be focused on trying to make the world a better place, than to be bitter or negative.”

World Trying Persons Energy Negative Focused Bitter Better Place Positive Person

Author:Dave Smalley

“I actually think it's easier to be positive than negative, to be honest - it takes way more energy to stay mad at someone, for instance, than it does to say "i forgive you" and move on.”

Thinking Way Doe Moving Energy Honest Easier Negative Mad Forgiving Instance Being Honest Being Positive I Forgive You Mad At Someone

Author:Dave Smalley

“We [Americans] have secularized the public life of our country in such a way to say something is religious is something negative. Religion has now turned into a way to discredit people. It is futile and dishonest to argue about religion. Religion is a phenomenological umbrella; there are all kinds of religions. It makes a difference when your religion is telling you something true or something false.”

People Way Kind Country Differences Religious Negative Arguing All Kinds Our Country Making A Difference Public Life Umbrella Discredit

Author:Francis George

“I never ever would have thought initially it would have been someone like Pierce playing Charles. I think he has an innate likeability to him, as soon as you meet him he's very, very charismatic. Charles, on the page, was someone who's very domineering and quite a negative character, and Pierce just by being Pierce can change the whole dynamic of it, which made for a much for interesting relationship. He's a really nice guy.”

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Author:Robert Pattinson

“The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?”

People Talking Negative Muscles Our Society Implications People Talking

Author:James Hillman

“I think you need to be able to see a lot of negative in things in order to extract material, so there's probably something to that. A lot of the people I used to work with were very, very, very unfunny offstage, so that's a pretty common thing.”

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Author:Eric Bana

“You know what, I'm happy to say that everything outside of 'Dexter' feels like a vacation, and I don't mean to say anything negative about the show. It's just a different kind of work. Emotionally it's taxing and complicated, and that's a great thing.”

Knows Feels Kind Mean Different Shows Negative Complicated Great Things Vacation Different Kinds Say Anything

Author:Jennifer Carpenter

“Send your life to a whole new level! Zip up the negative words and start speaking faith and victory into your future.”

Whole Levels Victory Negative Uplifting Our Future Your Future Zips Negative Words

Author:Joel Osteen

“At 10 o'clock in the morning I'd go right in the studio. It feels good to be there in the morning before the day starts to mess with you - I don't mean in a negative way, but before I'd speak to a lot of people or get into anything, I'd go in there and just see what I felt. A lot happens in the morning for me in the studio.”

People Way Feels Mean Happens Speak Felt Morning Negative Studios Feel Good Mess Clock

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“Sometimes, people say certain things about me that are negative, but that's no problem. I try to take their negative and turn it to a positive. That's why I like to surround myself with positive people.”

People Trying Sometimes Problem Certain Turns Negative Surround No Problem Positive People

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.”

Knows Attention Know How Media Balance Negative Gamble Putting Yourself Out There

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like, and a lot of them are negative ideas.”

People Ideas Sound Negative Instruments Harps

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I fell in love with the pageant world. People that don't compete in pageants, I think they have a negative feeling for them, but really, they are incredible.”

People Thinking World Feelings Negative Incredibles Pageant Negative Feelings

Author:Abbey Curran

“It's sad to see that something you have done or the decisions that you have made affect your children in a negative way.”

Way Children Made Done Decision Negative Our Children Your Children

Author:Pamela Anderson

“I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.”

Way Want Needs Writing Has Beens Use Care My Own Attitude Products Negative Alternatives Microsoft Negative Attitude

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Don't ever give up. You can't let discouragement get you down. You can always find negative people that will try to discourage you from your goals. You can't be discouraged, and you can't let the word "no" stop you.”

People Giving Trying Goal Giving Up Negative Discouraged Discouraging Discouragement Negative People Don't Ever Give Up

Author:Paula Deen

“The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn't match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy coming out of me still, but it needed to all get out so I could trash those songs and put them in the bin. And then I was able to let the new songs out.”

Writing Stills Feelings Able Song Energy Needed Negative Sentiments Coming Out Trash New Songs Negative Energy

Author:Damien Rice

“I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and wouldn't approach things on that level. I can't really fathom it being a negative thing for aliens to visit.”

Thinking Humans I Can Would Be Fighting Levels Stupid Approach Negative Aliens Dumb Smarter Fathom

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out.”

Ideas Enough Feelings Belief Emotion Negative Plus New Thought Deep Feeling Thoughts And Ideas Negative Beliefs

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

“This Creative Mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure, depending upon the goals which you yourself set for it. Present it with success goals and it functions as a Success Mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and it operates just as impersonally, and just as faithfully as a Failure Mechanism.”

Goal Creative Achieve Negative Function Unhappiness Mechanism Within You Achieving Goals

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

“An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.”

People Want May Fighting Evil Chance Attitude Achieve Movement Succeed Negative Program Passionate Rejects Display Negative Attitude

Book:Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

“A bad day is just a day when you have been thinking more negative thoughts than positive ones. What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”

Thinking Has Beens Negative Bad Day Negative Thoughts

Author:Eleanor Powell

“If your personality is negative, it means that you do not have the confidence in God and in yourself that is your birthright.”

Ifs Mean Personality Negative Confidence In God Birthright

Author:Norman W. Walker

“The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given its most extreme form in anti-Western academe. Second, it is used as a negative label for any effort by the United States, or the West, to encourage liberties, to block fanaticisms, and to make aid dependent on positive economic policies. Those concerned with the future development of their countries, and of the world, cannot afford to let obsolete resentments distort their aims.”

“I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you.”

Ifs Knows Believe Humans Heart Reason Enough Happens Past Life Is I Believe Human Beings Break Negative Over It Our Past Your Past Heart Break

Author:Bipasha Basu

“My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.”

Use Perception Negative Legs Disability Handicaps

Author:Rick Hansen

“Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.”

School Consequence Negative Blame Credit Negative Consequences

Author:Denise Richards

“Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative”

Left Teaching Negative Lazy Occupation Greedy

Book:Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience

Source: Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience

“Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.”

War Fighting Animal Speech Negative Flesh Nonviolence Negative Thoughts Abstention

Author:Nathaniel Altman

“Negative people will always criticize”

People Negative Criticize Negative People

Author:Shiv Khera

“If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.”

Ifs Needs Giving Feels Children Moments Stories Felt Skills Negative Overcoming Our Children Your Children Hardship

Author:Bruce Feiler

“My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Done Form Song Negative Instinct

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Healing... is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one's full emotional and spiritual recovery. This internal review inevitably leads one to review one's external circumstances in an effort to recreate one's life in a way that serves activation of will - the will to see and accept truths about one's life and how one has used one's energies; and the will to begin to use energy for the creation of love, self-esteem, and health.”

Source: Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“I needed to turn off the negative voice in my head - I was psyching myself out.”

Turns Voice Needed Negative Turn Off Voices In My Head

Author:Michelle Kwan

“Don't focus on the negative things that can happen, just think about the positive things.”

Thinking Happens Focus Negative Positive Things

Author:Michelle Kwan

“I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside.”

Ifs Thinking Years Long Would Be Culture Term Wonder Technology Century Car Television Thousand Perception Negative Long Term Thousand Years 21st Century Short Term

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books I sell, I think. It seems to have nothing to do with what I'm writing, but what degree of success I'm perceived to have. It's really weird, especially since I spent so much of my life covering people who are famous. It's interesting to actually have it happen to me on some level.”

People Thinking Writing Book Seems Happens Interesting Levels Amount Degrees Negative Sells Response Related Covering Really Weird

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman

“The thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated, polarizing person. I feel like I write about things that I'm interested in, and I describe why they're interesting to me. I could be negative, I guess. It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good.”

People Feels Writing Persons Interesting Terrible Easier Perception Negative Controversial Opinionated Baffled Polarizing

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Term Interesting Achieve Judgment Negative Optimistic Irony

Author:Jeff Koons

“I've generally gotten negative feedback from men who don't understand and don't find street harassment to be a serious issue. I've also gotten a lot of responses from women who are appreciative and thankful for the project; who relate to it who are passionate about it.”

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Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

“It's been kind of extreme - people either love it or they don't like it at all - and I think that's a good thing. It's my first art project where there's not a middle ground. I find it very interesting. But the negative feedback hasn't at all kept me from doing it, obviously. Because I haven't really gotten any negative feedback that I feel is really warranted.”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Kind Art Interesting Middle Havens Projects Negative Good Things Extremes Feedback Very Interesting Middle Ground Art Projects Negative Feedback

Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

“It`s probably fair to say I have taken myself too seriously on some jobs. I`m sure I`m more guilty of being difficult than I`d like to remember. I don`t regret my desires; I`ve regretted the way I would communicate my desires. Maybe I`ve lost a job because of some rumor, I doubt it. But nobody good that I`ve worked with has ever said anything negative about me, because we`ve never had a negative experience. By good, I mean directors who do their homework, people that are passionate, crazy, never sleep, and do like I do and just go after it.”

“To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility.”

Important Negative Sacred Valuable All Time Instant Threatened Being Positive

Author:Kurt Cobain

“You cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative.”

Mind America Tomorrow Negative Revenge

Author:George W. Bush

“I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.”

People Character Fighting Interest Struggle Negative

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace”

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.”

Knows Mind I Can Remember Negative Reviews

Author:Barbra Streisand

“I'll co-host TODAY from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.”

“Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.”

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Author:Robert S. Kaplan

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