“What really has helped me through my own breakups has been learning tools to self-soothe, reframe, and forgive, and how to channel negative energy into positive. Resilience is a muscle. Learning how to cope and process painful emotions is a muscle. And I've been through enough ups and downs to know that you have a choice. You can use breakups, which are pivotal points in life, as a catalyst for growth, or you can choose to have it make you jaded and more fear-based.” EnoughChoicesEnergyGrowthEmotionNegativeForgivingPainfulResilienceBreakupUps & Downs Author:Amy Chan
“Get in the habit of writing down three things you're grateful for every day. Studies show that in a two-minute span of time, done over 21 days in a row, you can actually rewire your brain. Your brain starts to retain a pattern of scanning the world for the positive versus the negative. Seeing things in a frame of positivity and gratitude is a muscle. You can strengthen this muscle through practice.” WorldWritingDoneBrainStudyHabitGratitudeNegativeGratefulPositivity Author:Amy Chan
“Here's a philosophical rule of thumb: always start with the negative definitions. Negative definitions are always easier to understand. So, here's a negative definition. We must not conceive difference in terms of the differences we find between things that already exist. Difference is not empirical differences.” TermNegativePhilosophical Author:Leonard Lawlor
“I think the role of comedy in your life should supersede anything and everything negative. Just by virtue of the fact that you have to be funny, you can't afford to focus on the negative. As a comedian, your challenge is to turn negative stuff into positive energy. You should be able to hear anything that sounds bad, that people normally wouldn't laugh at, and make it feel funny to you. No one should be able to deter you, once you have your mind set on comedy. Your survival as a comedian should be as natural as breathing. I need to breathe and I consider my career my air.” PeopleThinkingMindEnergyNaturalChallengesLaughingVirtueComedyFocusSurvivalNegativeBreatheComedianPositive EnergyMind Set Author:DeRay Davis
“It's clear the relationship between China and North Korea has hardly ever been worse. Kim Jong-un has never been to Beijing in his leadership. The Chinese press are saying some amazingly negative things about the north, and about Kim Jong-un. So - so they are weighing in, and they are bringing greater pressure. Whether it will be enough I think remains to be seen.” ThinkingEnoughNegativeChineseNorth Korea Author:Robert M. Gates
“I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive dangerous vision and behavior of people who support Donald Trump.” PeopleDarkVisionSupportDangerousBehaviorNegativeSickTired Author:Hillary Clinton
“There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.” EnoughBlackIntegrityNegativeStereotypeBlack Women Author:Octavia Spencer
“I don't see any Stoic practice as problematic or risky, but I would advise to engage in extreme versions of the negative visualization exercise only if you are an advanced practitioner. The negative visualization is a meditation during which you visualize, slowly and deliberately, something bad or discomforting happening to you.” MeditationExerciseNegativeAdviseVisualizationStoic Author:Massimo Pigliucci
“You think you're being given all of these things: phones that can communicate with other devices, car service that's better than a taxi, all of these amazing things that are available to you at any time. It isn't until you've swum across the river that you can start to see the negative aspects of it all.” ThinkingCarNegativeCommunicateTaxi Author:Neil Gaiman
“I try to do as much as I can within myself, with my friends, with my family. Talking to people who are motivated by freedom. I think that sometimes there's something called a negative learning curve where you begin to watch what's happened when the government takes more and more of your life and all of a sudden it's not working so well. I think people may get the idea that they may have bought into some false idols.” PeopleThinkingTryingSometimesNegativeMy FamilyMotivated Author:James Wasserman
“Incidentally, the very, very first review that James Lavelle and I saw of Endtroducing was very negative! It was in The Wire, and the context of the review was that, you know, Mo'Wax was so far behind Ninja Tune. Heheheh. And people wonder why there was this sense of a feud between labels! We just kind of looked at each other and we were like, 'Oh, well, let the floodgates open!' But, not to be facile, that was literally the last bad review I ever saw for that album.” PeopleKindWonderNegativeWireOh WellNinja Author:DJ Shadow
“You can find negative people everywhere you go. The last thing in the world you want to do is talk to them, because all they're gonna do is cement pessimism in you!” PeopleWorldNegativePessimismCement Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Hamas played the negative opposition, in a sense, because it formed an alternative source of power without any mandate from the people. Now, Hamas has that mandate and it wants to form a national unity government. I say, let them form a government and let them accept the fact that they will have opposition.” PeopleAcceptingNegativeUnityHamas Author:Hanan Ashrawi
“State-controlled Associated Press: 'The gross domestic product declines 1% in the second quarter, better than expected.' The bottom line is the economy is still shrinking! It's contracting. There's negative growth. One percent, big whoop, we're supposed to feel happy about this? The only thing that would make me happy about this is if I saw a story that said the government shrunk by 1%. Then we'd be making progress.” GrowthEconomyProgressNegativeBottomGrossMake Me Happy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Flaw is just a negative word for what might be something that makes you unique or interesting.” InterestingUniqueNegativeFlaws Author:Matt Warburton
“You can now share your story anonymously much more easily than you could earlier and you can watch people have conversations about it. And when people come out and say negative things about you, there will be other people who have had similar experiences or who know people who have had similar experiences who will defend you.” PeopleShareNegative Author:Ellen Pao
“For those saying they live in fear, again, I think they should be part of the conversation. They should reach out and try to not be so presumptively accusatory, frankly, or presumptively negative towards the president-elect, and instead try to build that trusting relationship and try to, frankly, explain their case to him and to his advisers.” ThinkingTryingNegativeReach Out Author:Kellyanne Conway
“A false identity is any lie that contradicts our God-given identities through Scripture. These false identities can be created by ourselves because of sin in our lives, choices made, or wrong turns taken and the regret, guilt, and shame that follows. Other false identities are handed to us by outside sources, maybe a damaging word spoken to us by someone or a childhood of abuse. However, not all false identities are negative on the surface, such as successful, attractive, wealthy, athletic, or talented. But even those identities can become false when we place too much of our weight on them.” LyingChoicesSinSuccessfulTakenChildhoodIdentityRegretNegativeAbuseShameGuiltScriptureAttractiveWealthyAthleticLife ChoicesWrong Turn Author:Matthew West
“I've learned to take the positive and negative, but that still kind of shook me. I'm human. I have moments when I sit back and wonder how doing something that makes me happy can possibly offend other people. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I don't have time for that.” PeopleKindMomentsWonderNegativeMake Me Happy Author:Rosie Mercado
“Robert Mueller himself has perhaps the best and the cleanest reputation in all of official Washington. He is Mr. Integrity. He is Mr. Cultured. He is Mr. Mannered. He is Mr. Sophisticated. There isn't a soul in Washington who dares utter nary a negative word about Mueller.” SoulIntegrityNegativeDareReputationSophisticated Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There is a built-in mechanism by which we respond fairly strongly and fairly negatively to somebody who is being negative or to somebody who is simply disagreeing with us, in which case it's a very unhappy position for our brain to be in. Our brain does not want us to be wrong. Because that has very dire consequences in terms of our overall survival.” TermBrainSurvivalConsequenceNegativeUnhappyWant U Author:Andrew B. Newberg
“It is important to understand that stereotypes and generalizations have an impact in both positive and negative ways. Of course not every person born between 1980 and 2000 is exactly the same as millenials. There are differences within generations. That being said, generations have a personality just as individuals do.” ImportantIndividualPersonalityNegativeStereotype Author:Chip Espinoza
“Millennials are an easy group to identify in terms of their appearance and are therefore highly subject to being stereotyped. When a negative stereotype about a group is relevant to performance on a specific task, it is referred to as "stereotype threat." Individuals who are highly identified with a particular group may experience increased susceptibility to stereotype threat.Understanding perceptions and why they may exist helps to explain and demystify tension and conflict that surfaces as a result of generational discord.” HelpingIndividualEasyUnderstandingTermConflictPerceptionNegativeThreatAppearanceTensionRelevantStereotype Author:Chip Espinoza
“I felt like if I said something positive on Twitter, it got no play. But if I said something negative on Twitter, it was a billion retweets and so that was giving me a Pavlovian response to be mean, and I don't want to be mean. We all have mean thoughts. They should not be broadcast on Twitter. You don't need to see mean things.” GivingMeanNegativeResponse Author:Damon Lindelof
“If you look at the ecosystem, entrepreneurs as a class have gotten younger, younger, and younger. They also as a class have become less and less and less experienced. The good part about that is that you're unlocking this ability to start a company to so many more people. That's an amazing positive. The negative is they're coming to that job with dramatically less experience than they've ever had. So there needs to be someone around the table that can then help them.” PeopleHelpingAbilityNegativeEntrepreneur Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a goal. It's kind of like, I have three young children and when I tell them to eat vegetables, the last thing they will ever do is eat vegetables. I think it's just this weird thing where entrepreneurs have a reflexive negative reaction when people are pushing for it. I think you have to view going public for what it is, which is a transitional moment where you can consolidate mindshare and win at an even larger scale.” PeopleThinkingKindChildrenMomentsWinningGoalNegativeEntrepreneur Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“I was disappointed as a Hillary supporter. But the fact is, is that he won North Carolina and came very close to winning in Indiana after all of the Reverend Wright and after all of the negative attacks. And it seems to me that there were a lot of white Americans who said, "I'm still gonna vote for Obama because I like what he's saying."” WinningNegativeVoteDisappointedSupporter Author:Maria Echaveste
“The sound of madness is life. It's waking up in the morning to your alarm clock, your kid crying for you, hearing the sound of the city, it's everything. Madness isn't necessarily a negative thing, it can be a positive thing. You know, hearing them cry for you, if you have children, is a great thing, it's your child.” ChildrenKidsMorningCryNegativeMadnessWake UpOur ChildrenGreat ThingsClockYour Children Author:Barry Kerch
“Most people who are on a spiritual path realize their thoughts are crucial to their experiences. If you have negative thoughts, you draw and attract negative experiences to yourself. But knowing that and ruling your behavior by it can seem like two different things.” PeopleDifferentSpiritualRealizingPathBehaviorNegativeNegative Thoughts Author:Doreen Virtue
“The angels already know how you feel, but they want you to pour out your heart to them, because then you are admitting your deepest fears to yourself. That way, it gets the demons - the angels don't use that word - so, rather, the negative energy out of you, helping you surrender it to God. A lot of us are afraid to tune into our deepest fears, but when you admit them to the angels there is this relief that actually helps you to be more effective and to more clearly hear your divine guidance.” HeartHelpingEnergyDivineAngelNegativeSurrenderGuidanceDemon Author:Doreen Virtue
“The problem is I think Howie is exactly right, is that Donald Trump would rather be at the center of a media controversy in a negative way than allow the limelight to move to Hillary Clinton and let her actually take heat in the public - in a public arena. And it just sucks up all of the oxygen.” ThinkingProblemMovingNegativeClintonControversy Author:Jonah Goldberg
“Just like everything else in our lives, with the good comes the bad. It applies to success as well. Success isn't a destination, it's a journey - a journey that will be sure to come with lots of great achievements and lots of setbacks. You have the power to decide if those downsides are going to define you in a negative way or a positive way.” JourneyAchievementNegativeSetbackGreat Achievement Author:Lizzie Velasquez
“I fell like a lot of times, when I write a song, it is coming from an introspective perspective that my faith always kind of factors. Faith is either part of what factors in to my decision making, or it is part of what factors into my fears and my doubts. It is either the positive or the negative part of it that is afflicting me during times of conflict, which is normally when you write songs about yourself when you find some sort of conflict or you are seeking some sort of resolution.” WritingKindSongDecisionDoubtPerspectiveConflictNegativeDecision MakingResolutionAbout YourselfIntrospective Author:Matt Thiessen
“The center has had the challenge of always having to be reasonable, balanced. If you're on the right, you can reach to the right; and on the left, you can reach left. But the center hasn't always sold as well in politics - it doesn't fit neatly on a bumper sticker. But what we're seeing is that citizens in countries around the world are realizing that, no, it's more important to be responsible and optimistic and thoughtful about the solutions and not feed knee-jerk, negative emotions.” WorldImportantCountryRealizingChallengesEmotionFitSolutionsNegativeResponsibleOptimisticThoughtfulBeing ResponsibleBumperStickerBumper Sticker Author:Justin Trudeau
“There's been a false and negative distinction that's been made between joy and happiness. Unfortunately, the message we send to those both inside and outside the church is, "Seeking happiness is superficial and shallow. Go out and get it in the world, but you won't find happiness in God." But all people seek happiness, and because they do, we're basically telling them, "Stop seeking what God Himself wired you to seek." What we should be saying is, "Seek your happiness in the right place - in God Himself."” PeopleWorldJoyChurchNegativeShallowSuperficialFinding HappinessJoy And Happiness Author:Randy Alcorn
“I have to say, the other day I was reading some negative comments, and I was thinking they were really funny. So I guess they don't anymore.” ThinkingReadingNegativeComment Author:Kate Upton
“One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can make them sufficiently uncomfortable, they frequently respond by doing what you need them to do in the spirit of setting people free or ceasing arrests, which has worked time and time again with PEN.” PeopleSpiritStrangeNegativeViolentUncomfortablePens Author:Salman Rushdie
“When I make music, I play it, I produce it, I write it. It's a very self-centered thing, not in a negative way. But I primarily work by myself, that's my process. When I'm acting, I'm there to serve the director and the character. I'm here to give you what you need. Communicate that to me and I will do what I need to do to get that. So that's what it's about.” GivingWritingCharacterActingNegativeCommunicate Author:Lenny Kravitz
“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.” WarPeaceNegativeAnti WarAntiwarAffirmationPeace WarPeace And HappinessMake Peace Not WarRevolutionary WarAchieving PeacePeace Not WarExpulsionPeaceful Protest Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it, but ultimately the way to undermine the Trump brand is a better product in the political marketplace, if you'll forgive the capitalist metaphor. I do think that the negative messaging on Trump is severely limited because he is tapping into a very deep, and in many a rightful, desire for deep change, and a feeling that the whole system is so broken and so corrupt that you might as well raise a middle finger as some kind of act of agency.” ThinkingBelieveKindFeelingsPoliticalDesireAbilityBrokenNegativeForgivingMetaphorCapitalistVery DeepMiddle Finger Author:Naomi Klein
“I was invited to give the Freshmen Convocation at Florida Gulf Coast University on October 24, 2004. My book The Open Space of Democracy had been selected as one of the "common readers" for the university's 1,050 entering freshmen. On October 6, William Merwin, the president of Florida Gulf Coast, made the decision to "postpone" the convocation. He cited negative statements I had made in print about President Bush. If our colleges and universities are no longer the champions and protectors of free speech, then no voice in this country is safe.” GivingBookCountryPresidentDecisionCommonDemocracyCollegeNegativeChampionPrintFree SpeechPresident BushOctoberProtectorFreshman Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“In those places of doubt and even darkness I've realized that who I am has nothing to do with wins or losses, applause, or negative criticism. It has to do with whose I am.” WinningLossDarknessDoubtNegativeCriticism Author:Tim Tebow
“Though negative things have happened to me, God somehow let me know that becoming bitter was not the way to go. You die when you do that. Someone once told me that if you fully open your arms to receive love, you'll get some scratches and cuts on your arms, but a lot of love will come in. If you close your arms, you might never get cut - but the good stuff won't come in either.” CuttingLove YouNegativeLet MeBitter Author:Quincy Jones
“Our language was even taken from us. The Irish Gaelic language was outlawed and the religion was outlawed. Hence the religion later being stronger; stronger to a negative point of view. But our venge was, I mean if you listen to Irish language, it's very complicated but it's very poetic.” MeanLanguageTakenNegativeStrongerComplicatedPoint Of ViewPoeticGaelic Author:Gavin Friday
“Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have.” DoneMovingUniverseChallengesPoorEmotionMistakeRiskRegretNegativeOptimismLives Of OthersHaving PatienceLearning From Our Mistakes Author:Garry Kasparov
“I'm just always trying to be positive. Negative things happen to everybody. Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.” TryingSuccessfulNegativeDetermineObstaclesThings HappenBeing PositiveHurdle Author:Craig Sager
“If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down, you're going to have negative results. But if you feel like you're going to make it through and you have positive thoughts, you have a much better chance to survive and be successful and happy.” RunningChanceAttitudeSuccessfulLike YouNegativeBeing Successful Author:Craig Sager
“What keeps me up at night in a negative way is, if we don't solve the problems of the human heart and of the human head, of human psychology, there is no technological solution so great that it can prevent the world that is coming, and a world of suitcase bombs or of the ability to pollute the planet in a way that it cannot recover, of global warming and the rest. We've created through science and technology a different world that has frightening sides to it, and psychology and behavioral science has to be part of this. We're going to have to find a way to humanize the culture itself.” WorldHeartDifferentProblemNightCultureAbilityTechnologyPsychologySolutionsNegativeGlobal WarmingFrighteningTechnologicalHuman HeartScience And Technology Author:Steven C. Hayes
“One of the biggest concerns about going out beyond lower Earth orbit is the radiation. We find that exercise seems to counteract a lot of the negative effects of space flight, like bone loss and muscle atrophy and cardiovascular systems issues. We exercise two hours a day on the station, which is a huge hit out of your day. It's great for staying in shape, but you know, it cuts into the productivity of the crew and if you look at how expensive it is to get a crew into space, if we can keep them healthy and have them exercise, but spend less time doing it, we can get more done.” DoneEarthHoursLossCuttingExerciseHealthyConcernNegativeBonesProductivityFlight Author:Leroy Chiao
“I like things that are contradictory or seem one way but are another way. I think it's more genuine. It's the way I am. I am very positive in certain ways and extremely negative in other ways. I think it's most appropriate if I can write a super pop-y song singing about killing myself.” ThinkingWritingSongSingingNegativeKillingContradictoryVery Positive Author:Memory Tapes