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“I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.”

Thinking Feels Persons Order Evil Sin Positive Negative Batteries

Author:Dolly Parton

“If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.”

People Ifs Desire Strong Causes Understanding Break Environment Negative Chains Persist Strong Desire

Author:Dave Pelzer

“Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”

Artist Values Term Positive Genius Negative Hiroshima Hiroshima And Nagasaki Positive Values

Author:Pablo Picasso

“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.”

People Thinking Way Mean Reason Term Emotional Negative Treats Attractive Buttons Listeners Offensive Swearing Connotation

Author:Steven Pinker

“Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.”

Men Long Hate Differences Negative Making A Difference Feedback Hate Me Cocky Negative Feedback

Book:Notes to Myself

Source: Notes to Myself

“Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth.”

Thinking Space Audience Scene Negative Depth Screens Zero Coming Out Negative Space

Author:Keanu Reeves

“Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.”

Trying Problem Information Offers Negative Hip Hop Hips Hops Platforms

Author:Busta Rhymes

“You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.”

Giving Should Negative Suggestions Constructive Negative Thoughts Ammunition

Author:Jane Roberts

“People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.”

People Long Self Political Party Poverty Self Esteem Negative Esteem Permanent Welfare Political Parties Incentives

Author:Mitt Romney

“Negative politics have always been around.”

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Author:Karl Rove

“I've been around long enough to not take seriously statements like I am about to be crushed. I'm about how do we seek re-election of the Australian government, how we prevent Tony Abbott from being elected. The bottom line is that it should be all hands to the pump rather than saying other, frankly negative and internally divisive things.”

Should Long Enough Hands Government Lines Negative Election Bottom Statements Bottom Line Crushed Australian Pumps

Author:Kevin Rudd

“One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.”

Strange Negative Violent Regimes Publicity Strange Things Glare

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.”

People Children Young Social Security Mines Ready Return Percent Negative Rate Retirement Retiring Social Security Percentages Young Children

Author:Paul Ryan

“I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody.”

People Helping Reality Hate Tvs Negative Bad People Reality Tv Pimp

Author:Bob Saget

“I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.”

Art Past Pleasure Painting Negative Decades Acceptable Twists Approved Isms Curator Checklists

Author:Jerry Saltz

“When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.”

Literature Strong Perfect Negative Invisible Flaws Association Flawed Prompts Spelling

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I've never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word.”

Trying I Can Song Courses Term Negative Performances Studios Annoying Connotation Recording Studio

Author:Nicole Scherzinger

“Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?”

Trying Philosophy Literature Positive Concepts Negative Worthwhile Introducing

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.”

Want Looks Has Beens Ends Values Loss Figures Easier Consequence Negative Connections Traditional Advertising Online Users Broadband Negative Consequences Online Advertising

Author:Eric Schmidt

“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”

Source: Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People

“It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”

“You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.”

Leadership Business Learning Positive Negative Economics Management Desert Storm

Author:Norman Schwarzkopf

“I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.”

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Author:Chloe Sevigny

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

“When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.”

Want Heart Feelings Problem Care Negative Lonely Weight Take Care Strokes Take Care Of Yourself Heart Attack Cholesterol Feeling Down Weight Problems High Cholesterol

Author:Richard Simmons

“I adore John Mayer. I don't see how anything that surrounds John could be negative.”

Negative Surround Adore Mayer

Author:Jessica Simpson

“More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.”

People Ifs Knows Reason Dark Emotion Information News Happenings Expectations Negative Bad News Negative Emotions

Author:Simon Sinek

“If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”

“There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?”

Kids Father Black Dad Negative Right Thing Fatherhood Imagery Doing The Right Thing Fathers Day Being A Dad Newsworthy

Author:Will Smith

“You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.”

Knows Media Negative Journalist

Author:Hope Solo

“The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.”

Country States Used United Results United States Becoming Cost Consequence Negative Substance Illegal Marijuana Other Countries Negative Consequences

Author:George Soros

“That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.”

People Thinking Ideas Courses Voice Term Attitude Stage Type Demand Negative Female Males Singers Auras Stage Presence

Author:Jordin Sparks

“Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.”

States Shows Jobs Law Growth Numbers Impossible One Thing Effects Negative Impact Workers Factors Reasonable Multitudes Wages Economist Job Growth

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.”

People Ifs Has Beens Real Dies Enemy Willing Despair Negative Terrorism Willing To Die

Author:John Shelby Spong

“An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.”

Sides Fields Positive Negative Meetings Passing Passings Former Latter Atoms Electric Quantum Passing Through

Author:Johannes Stark

“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”

People Thinking Life Inspirational Littles Bigs Differences Attitude Self Help Positive Positive Thinking Negative Inspirational Attitude Positivity Positive Attitude Making A Difference Negativity Insperational Being Positive Stay Positive Negative People My Attitude Think Positive Mental Attitude Power Of Positive Thinking Positive Thinking And Attitude Winning Attitude Best Attitude Negative Thinking Keep A Positive Attitude Positive Thinking Attitude Bad Attitude Negative Attitude Great Attitude Life Attitude Attitude Is Everything Positive Mental Attitude Attitude And Life Great Positive Attitude Positive Thinking Success Attitudes And Success Think Positive Be Positive Positive Attitude In Life Inspirational Positive Attitude Positive Attitude And Success Positive Thinking Inspirational Motivational Attitude Cool Attitude Negative And Positive Staying Positive In Life Positive Attitude Images Contagious Attitudes Work Attitude Thinking Negative Negatives Make

Book:Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude

Source: Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude

“Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.”

Freedom Attitude Influence Gratitude Negative Internals Bondage Negative Thoughts Subjection External Influences

Author:W. Clement Stone

“Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.”

Generations Waste Capacity Negative Obvious Wasting Time Speakers Immense Obscure Concentrating This Generation Platitudes

Author:Arthur Hays Sulzberger

“With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.”

World Way Humans Technology Growing Modern Demand Limits Negative Impact Seven Population Billions Cycles Convenience Better Ways Way To Live Human Population Modern Conveniences

Author:David Suzuki

“If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.”

“A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.”

Way Helping Young Turns Adults Negative All Things Connected Online Naive Impulsive Negative Words

Author:Adora Svitak

“As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.”

People Matter School Faces Walks High School Negative No Matter What Like Me Sober Supportive Select Hometown Being Sober

Author:Taylor Swift

“Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.”

People Want Firsts Happens Loses Negative Things Happen Retiring Surgery Weird Things

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course.”

People Inspirational Persons Made Ideas Enough Moments Turns Courses Decision Conscious Negative Vulnerable Conception Comment Back When Negative Comments

Author:Sara Blakely

“If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.”

Ifs Negative Surprise Outcomes Banking Lending

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.”

Kind Able Conditions Media Normal Negative Communicate Happy Life Autism Socializing

Author:Daniel Tammet

“There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.”

Wells Children Country Girl Millions Economic Development Lows Negative India Impact Well Being Literacy Illiterate Economic Development Lack Of Education

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.”

Law Purpose Revolution Ten Behavior Concepts Negative Commandments Mandates Ten Commandments French Revolution Good Behavior

Author:Randall Terry

“People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.”

People Needs Stills Care Involved Negative Investment Hiv

Author:Charlize Theron

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