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“It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.”

Negative Just Being Unfinished Unsatisfied

Author:Kevin Spacey

“The word diva has a negative connotation.”

Negative Connotation

Author:Glenn Close

“A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Trying Emotional Negative Reactions Confused Irrational Diminish Think Of Me Unsafe Negative Reactions

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.”

People Knows Children Stars Grows Growing Up Negative Crap Dodge

Author:Dustin Diamond

“Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?”

Beautiful Negative Wave Hopeful Righteous Oddballs

Author:Donald Sutherland

“The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.”

Author:Montgomery Clift

“Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if I want. Growing up has some negative connotations. Like, you're not supposed to roll around on the ground anymore. You're not supposed to make fun of yourself. You're not supposed to ride a bicycle. But I'm a Toys-R-Us kid.”

Ifs Want Feels I Can Whole Kids Fun Growing Up Growing Like You Negative Whole Life Toys Bicycle Connotation

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.”

People Feels Said Done Realizing Deals Seeing Inspire Negative Connections Injury Insecurity Flaws

Author:James Mercer

“When people say negative things or speculate, you can't help but feel hurt.”

People Feels Helping Hurt Negative

Author:Ann Curry

“If you constantly beat yourself up with negative thoughts, you will either beat up on the people around you- verbally, emotionally, or physically- or you will beat up on yourself by destroying some area of your own life.”

People Ifs Beats Areas Negative Destroying Negative Thoughts

Author:Debbie Ford

“So many things were going great in my life and then all of the sudden my personal life just went down at crazy speeds. I had a negative breakdown and it changed my life forever, but I'm glad that it did, because if I had never gone into the treatment ... I don't know if, one, I'd even be sitting here today. Two, if I'd be alive today.”

Ifs Knows Two Today Gone Forever Alive Crazy Changed Sitting Negative Speed Glad Treatment Personal Life Breakdown Live For Today Changed My Life

Author:Demi Lovato

“I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.”

Thinking Trying Possibility Negative Disaster Negative Thoughts

Author:Rory Cochrane

“Please don't take a turn to negative town.”

Turns Please Negative Towns Wedding Crasher

Author:Vince Vaughn

“There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.”

Art Emotion Danger Negative Fuel Negative Emotions

Author:Tavi Gevinson

“Happiness is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes. If you find it, please, don't take it for granted. If you Happen to stray from it, don't let negative obstacles overcome you. Anger and rage only detour you from your final objectives. The future holds nothing but opportunity, and good things happen to good people I promise”

People Ifs Happens Opportunity Please Promise Negative Overcoming Good Things Finals Obstacles Rage Things Happen Objectives Granted Good People Multitudes Traveled I Promise Detours

Author:Jeff Hardy

“Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions.”

Political Evolution Negative Proportion Something New Technological Unprecedented

Author:Jerry Mander

“Block out all the negative energy, and just love.”

Energy Negative Block Negative Energy

Author:Ariana Grande

“You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.”

Faces Challenges Focus Negative Optimistic Personal Life Professional Life

Author:Norah O'Donnell

“Don't be negative. It shows on your face.”

Shows Faces Negative Your Face

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as 'negative' is actually a liberating process for me.”

Feels Seems Song Process Emotion Negative Release Labels Liberating

Author:Grey DeLisle

“I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.”

Negative Timeless Accentuate

Author:Casey Kasem

“Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.”

Men Should Asks Leadership Accepting Solutions Negative Every Man Each Day

Book:The World Crisis

Source: The World Crisis

“I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I went to New York to focus on modeling, and then of course found that New York was not any different from Los Angeles.”

Looks Different Night Courses Found Sides Focus New York Negative Hollywood Los Angeles Modeling

Author:Erin Gray

“You can choose to be mad in a negative way where it fuels you to do mean, hateful things, or you can let your madness fuel your art and channel it in a positive way.”

Way Mean Art Negative Madness Mad Fuel Hateful

Author:Allie Gonino

“What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who aren’t cranks and charlatans are agreed on all this, that the consequences are uniformly negative, the issues beyond doubt and the steps to be taken beyond dispute.”

Government Steps Issues Taken Doubt Consequence Negative Argument Scientist Get Up Noses Disputes Guardian Charlatans Crank

Author:Michael Buerk

“The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.”

Way Feelings Negative Overcoming Attraction Best Way Law Of Attraction Negative Thoughts Thoughts And Feelings Undesirable

Book:THOUGHT VIBRATION - The Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Unabridged): From the American pioneer of the New Thought movement, known for Practical Mental Influence, The Secret of Success, The Arcane Teachings, Nuggets of the New Thought, Reincarnation and the Law of Karma

Source: THOUGHT VIBRATION - The Law of Attraction in the Thought World (Unabridged): From the American pioneer of the New Thought movement, known for Practical Mental Influence, The Secret of Success, The Arcane Teachings, Nuggets of the New Thought, Reincarnation and the Law of Karma

“To expect happiness without giving up negative action is like holding your hand in a fire and hoping not to be burned. Of course, no one actually wants to suffer, to be sick, to be cold or hungry - but as long as we continue to indulge in wrong doing we will never put an end to suffering. Likewise, we will never achieve happiness, except through positive deeds, words, and thoughts. Positive action is something we have to cultivate ourselves; it can be neither bought nor stolen, and no one ever stumbles on it just by chance.”

Want Giving Long Ends Hands Action Suffering Courses Chance Fire Achieve Cold Giving Up Negative Sick Deeds Hungry Burned Stolen Indulge Indulge In Negative Actions

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.”

Helping Spiritual Quality Example Mountain Bird Negative Hatred Following Spending Flying Golden Attachment Radiance Good Quality Bird Flying Spending Your Time

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“Never think of revising as fixing something that is wrong. That starts you off in a negative frame of mind. Rather think of it as an opportunity to improve something you already love.”

Thinking Mind Opportunity Negative Fixing Frame Of Mind Revising

Book:Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors

Source: Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors

“A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.”

People Energy Attitude Negative Great People Great Attitude Negative Energy Complainers Death Eaters

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.”

Men Giving Ideas Negative Blind Absurd Bullying Unfair Say Anything Disadvantages Blind Man

Author:Kirk Cameron

“People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!”

People Thinking Character Negative Expected Remembered

Author:Mark Hamill

“I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.”

Thinking Body Light Christian White Half Vision Focus Easier Negative Raised Other Half White Light Nihilist

Author:Billy Corgan

“I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear - the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.”

“Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment-negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don't let justified emotions rob your health and well-being.”

Wells Heart States Body Emotion Brain Worry Emotional Negative Anger Management Disappointment Well Being Frustration Resentment Justified Anger Management Tolls Anger Frustration

Author:Howard Martin

“When we consciously choose a core heart feeling over a negative feeling, we effectively intercept the physiological stress response that drains and damages our systems and allow the body's natural regenerative capacities to work for us. Instead of being taxed and depleted, our mental and emotional systems are renewed. As a consequence, they are better able to ward off future "energy eaters" like stress, anxiety and anger before they take hold.”

Heart Feelings Body Able Energy Natural Emotional Anxiety Consequence Capacity Negative Stress Anger Management Response Core Damage Drains Anger Management Physiological Negative Feelings

Author:Howard Martin

“It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.”

People World Lasts Perfect Records Example Drug Negative Addiction Isolation Drug Addiction Drug Addict

Author:Aimee Mann

“Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.”

Heart Names Sin Principles Virtue Taken Morality Holy Negative Species Wicked Decency Depraved

Author:Horace Bushnell

“And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.”

Giving Turns Opportunity Happened Negative Appreciate Organization Believer Best Things Staff Rangers Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

Author:Nolan Ryan

“The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.”

Negative Performances Score Print Composer Conductor

Author:Ansel Adams

“My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper. To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.”

Has Beens Able Choices Ability Alive Achieve Produce Higher Paper Gains Negative Ideals Photographer Chosen Magazines Print

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.”

States Government Used Purpose Certain Grew Negative Abuse Injustice Commerce Provision Clauses E Commerce

Author:James Madison

“Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.”

Giving Mean Has Beens Birth Negative Program Method Destructive Realistic Concrete Adoption Constructive Eugenics Birth Control

Book:The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

“The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations or his psychological health... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature.”

Ifs Men Littles Has Beens Sides Sin Half Virtue Successful Psychology Negative Illness Psychological Height Aspiration Shortcomings Jurisdiction

Author:Abraham Maslow

“I'm positive about the negative, but a little negative about the positive.”

Littles Negative Stooges Three Stooges

Author:Curly Howard

“What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as a negative instance whose function is repression”

Needs Whole Facts Body Running Form Force Social Pleasure Produce Negative Function Accepted Instance Productive Discourse Repression Traverse

Book:The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

Source: The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

“All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation.”

Source: The Architecture of Community

“A negative attitude toward others can never bring me success.”

Attitude Negative Think And Grow Rich Think Rich Grow Rich Negative Attitude

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time. One or the other must dominate. It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. Here the law of HABIT will come to your aid. Form the habit of applying and using the positive emotions! Eventually, they will dominate your mind so completely, that the negatives cannot enter it.”

Mind Form Law Emotion Responsibility Influence Habit Negative Aids Dominating Negative Emotions Positive Emotions

Book:Your Magic Power to be Rich!

Source: Your Magic Power to be Rich!

“The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.”

Ifs I Can Force Grows Masters Advantage Negative Terror Positivity Demon Panic I Have Learned Negativity Corpses Lilies Inappropriate Harness Chariots Arseholes

Author:Ingmar Bergman