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“Well, I think it's era that in which people had a lot of fun. In fact too much fun and would not concern themselves with the negative effects of the accesses that they were involved in.”

People Thinking Wells Facts Fun Too Much Effects Involved Concern Negative Access Eras Too Much Fun

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“around 1977 I became very ... negative, I began to do things unconsciously that I didn't understand, and they were very sabotagistic and I didn't know what I was doing. I was pissing everybody off, I was breaking my bridges. I was hostile to people, I was doing performances and insulting people there - I was doing whatever I could to destroy whatever world I had created ten years before, without knowing, really, why”

People Knows World Years Knowing Ten Negative Performances Bridges Hostile Insulting

Author:Charlemagne Palestine

“I've spent the last few years really trying to come out of that belief system. Speaking mythologically, it's like Beauty and the Beast. The beast kidnaps the beauty until she learns to love him for who he is. In a sense, our negative beliefs kidnap our greatness, our life-force. We have to go and kiss them.”

Trying Years Lasts Belief Force Our Lives Greatness Kissing Negative Beast Belief Systems Negative Beliefs

Author:Francis Dunnery

“Our past as well as our future. It could have been completely destroyed when we were brought to the New World as slaves. They even took away our drums. And I don't want to talk about all those negative things going on. But its music is more present in our lives than ever. Blues, samba, calypso, reggae, jazz, salsa, Africa is everywhere.”

World Want Wells Has Beens Past Our Lives Music Is Negative Jazz Slave Destroyed Our Future New World Our Past Could Have Been Reggae Salsa Samba Calypso

Author:Randy Weston

“The minute I started addressing my feelings, I actually came out of very negative situations.”

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Author:Mariah Carey

“When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody reads poetry," and then a thousand people write back, "No, we read poetry." There's an abundance of this negative preaching to the choir, and it's very similar to the experience I'm having.”

People Writing Art Form Thousand Negative Abundance Preaching Choir Preaching To The Choir

Author:Eileen Myles

“If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.”

Ifs Order Effects Negative Profit Compelled Externalities

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.”

Ifs Way Play Film Worry Pieces Balance Elements Negative Aspect Stronger Add Best Way Villain

Author:Alec Baldwin

“A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it. When someone do say something negative, most times I think about it, but it don't bother me that much.”

People Thinking Needs Giving Feels Sometimes Talent Negative Give Me Cancer Worthy Bother My Time Compliment Inventing Muscular Dystrophy

Author:B. B. King

“Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an expressive audience.”

Energy Audience Special Negative Cuban Expressive

Author:Fernando Perez

“It's much easier to say negative things in a review.”

Easier Negative Reviews

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific.”

Thinking Might Artist Energy Deals Negative Negative Energy

Author:Sean Lennon

“When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.”

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Author:Immortal Technique

“Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to continue down the disastrous track you're on and have a huge disaster? Talk about a bruised ego. It may ruin your career.”

Want May Littles Feelings Bits Hurt Careers Huge Ego Little Bit Negative Track Disaster Ruins Feedback Hurt Feelings Bruised Negative Feedback

Author:Charles Koch

“Be sure of what you want, focus, work hard, be ready to pick yourself up, do not take rejection personally, be as prepared as you can, always be learning, and eliminate negative people from your life regardless of who they are.”

People Want Hard Focus Ready Hard Work Picks Negative Prepared What You Want Rejection Negative People Pick Yourself Up

Author:Toks Olagundoye

“I'm reconnecting, I'm deepening, I'm opening, I'm releasing negativity and negative thoughts and all the limitations I carry around with me - again and again and again and again and again and again. And again! And that's the only thing that keeps me alive.”

Alive Negative Opening Limitation Again And Again Negativity Negative Thoughts Reconnecting

Author:Krishna Das

“In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit it are the ones who don't come in for care. If a mother in the United States or in Europe or in the UK comes to care and gets her medicines, she will have an HIV negative baby. Most people don't know that.”

People Ifs Knows Children States Care Mother United United States Baby Europe Negative Medicine Hiv Transmit Transmission

Author:Annie Lennox

“Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position... that we don’t like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“I think that the best approach would be if the American people ever insist that we cut down on the massive amounts of money that moves into the campaigns from special interest groups, and if we resist publicly by saying "No more negative advertisements that destroy the reputations of one's opponents." In the meantime, just don't pay any attention to negative ads, if you can avoid them, and try to focus on the issues.”

“I wouldn't want someone assuming that some negative song has some truth between me and my wife. There was a song that one of my buddies sent me, and it was an awesome song. It was about this woman who had fallen in love with a man that wasn't her husband, and I love everything about the song except for the fact that I personally cannot sing it. It would kill me if someone thought I was singing it about my wife.”

Ifs Men Want Facts Song Wife Truth Is Husband Singing Negative Assuming My Wife Fallen Kill Me Buddy

Author:Aaron Watson

“I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing ones are more effective. They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy.”

Thinking Way Writing Kind Feelings Pain Song Energy Easier Negative Angry Depressing Good Way Negative Energy Impassioned

Author:Adam Levine

“My debut single "Pointless Relationship" is about a girl's view of where the relationship is going with her partner and it sounds like a negative term. But the song is more of an empowering song from a woman's perspective! It's the life of them together and it's just never going to go where it should go, and so she's saying to him this is a pointless relationship.”

Should Together Song Girl Sound Term Views Perspective Negative Partners Empowering Pointless Debut

Author:Tammin Sursok

“I think I probably learned something from almost every gig that I've done, not only because each occurred at a different phase of my development, but because each one had something different to offer. Ideally, you should be able to get something out of everything, positive or negative. And if it's negative, try to turn it into some kind of learning experience.”

Ifs Thinking Should Trying Kind Different Done Able Turns Development Offers Negative Phases Gigs Learning Experience

Author:Vinnie Colaiuta

“Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.”

Ifs Looks Laughing Happened Negative Divorce Make You Laugh

Author:Kevin Hart

“Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.”

Has Beens War Sides Seeing Negative Program Nuclear Masterpiece Theatrical Nuclear War

Author:Barry Goldwater

“You may very well have good reasons for resentment, frustration and anger. But that doesn't mean those negative responses are good for you, or that you must choose them.”

Wells May Mean Reason Negative Response Frustration Resentment

Author:Ralph Marston

“Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.”

Faces Effort Circumstances Negative Accomplishment

Author:Ralph Marston

“I believe that your own thoughts can bring on positive or negative effects. So the people who feel sick all the time are the ones who are going to get sick, and the people who are constantly worried about what's going on around them... those are the ones in trouble.”

People Feels Believe I Believe Trouble Effects Negative Sick Worried

Author:Maria Conchita Alonso

“I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying one of the negative emotions, like fear, anger, anxiety, or depression. I wondered why no scientists cared to explain why we humans sometimes feel upbeat and pleasant. I liked the idea of charting new terrain. It's been a fun intellectual puzzle. There's so much to discover!”

“I am a firm believer in 'negative thinking' when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are - but he doesn't think continuously about the bunker - where he doesn't want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he DWELLS upon the green.”

Thinking Knows Want Needs Mind Used Clear Negative Green Believer Firm Sand Traps Glances Golfers Steers Negative Thinking Bunkers

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

“Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be negative tax rates. There can be subsidies. There can be allowances for depreciation. Lobbyists are adaptive creatures.”

Knows Facts Creatures Taxes Percent Negative Rate Income Lowest Allowance Subsidies Lobbyists Adaptive Depreciation

Author:Joel Achenbach

“It was thinking negative thoughts or thinking positive thoughts, leaving the house prepared or leaving the house unprepared that made the difference.”

Thinking Made House Differences Negative Prepared Leaving Positive Thoughts Negative Thoughts Think Positive Unprepared Thinking Positive Thoughts Thinking Negative

Book:The Success Principles(TM)

Source: The Success Principles(TM)

“My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.”

Humans Play Belief Decision Poor Roles Taken Consequence Negative Let Me Bigger Fragile Payoff True And False Asymmetry

Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.”

Ifs Writing Trying Character Teach Discipline Anxiety Negative Uncertainty Something New Anxious Capability Simplify Matisse

Book:Conversations with Bernard Malamud

Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud

“There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation.”

Ifs I Can One Thing Effects Thousand Expectations Hundred Negative Performances Dollars Billions Objectives Managers Fund Inclusion Minors Portfolios Variance

Author:Warren Buffett

“The emotions you once thought of as negative are merely a call to action. In fact, instead of calling them negative emotions... let's call them Action Signals.”

Action Emotion Negative Signals Negative Emotions

Author:Tony Robbins

“We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward.”

Moving Hours Negative Ads Consumed Bickering

Author:Barack Obama

“I will not entertain or dwell on negative things.”

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Author:Emmet Fox

“Comedians are - at the end of the day, we're just a bunch of people that lack a little bit of - we're very insecure, and we want to be loved and liked by everybody. And you know, I could check my Twitter and there could be 150 people that say wonderful things. There'll be one person who says something negative. And all we focus on is that negative.”

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Author:Russell Peters

“What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.”

People World Needs Today Virtue Negative Touchy Revengeful Huffy

Author:E. M. Forster

“Each of us has something to do in this lifetime. We all have negative emotions to be purified and positive emotions to be cultivated. All of us need to reconnect to our source and drop our personal stories, don't we? Men, women, old, young, from here, from there - it is the same. All you can do is your practice. There is nothing else. Don't get caught up. Don't stop. We have to learn how to get out or our own way. Because ultimately, the only thing standing in our way is ourselves.”

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Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.”

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Author:Meek Mill

“Is there a brick wall getting in your way? Fine. That happens. But you have a choice. You can walk away from the wall. You can go over the wall. You can go under the wall. You can go around the wall. You can also obliterate the wall. In other words, don't let anything get in your way. Get a balance, and then let the positive outdistance the negative.”

Way Happens Choices Walks Wall Fine Balance Negative Bricks Brick Wall

Author:Donald Trump

“Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is ... to put it mildly ... severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama's associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don't care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters.”

“A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.”

“A good Judoka never anticipates his action in a match, but his mind is as clever as a polished mirror which enables him to foresee precisely anything to happen and he displays freedom of his physique to cope with any change. Such mental state and physical action are called sei or tranquility and do or action, sometimes they are called ju and go or tenderness and sturdiness, in and yo or negative and positive, etc.”

Mind Sometimes States Happens Action Negative Mirrors Clever Etc Display Tenderness Tranquility Anticipate Polished Physique Negative And Positive

Author:Kyuzo Mifune

“Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years.”

People Years May Persons Minutes Ten Negative Argument Negative People

Author:Jeffrey Gitomer

“When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.”

Knows Energy Grew Negative Who I Am Stay True Stay True To Yourself Inspirational Celebrity Black Inspirational

Book:Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words

Source: Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words

“A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs. I have had a lot of positive things happen in my life, but I also have had some negative things that are not so fun to deal with, and not only do I have to hear it from my friends, but also everyone else as well, so it is nice to have my friends there to help me get through everything.”

Wells Helping Happens Fun Deals Nice My Friends Negative Things Happen Help Me True Friend Ups & Downs Positive Things True Friend Is

Author:Miley Cyrus

“Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable.”

Negative Predictable

Author:Adam Grant

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