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“I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.”

Thinking Bigs Term Fans Positive Thinking Negative Artificial Duality Being Positive

Author:Srikumar Rao

“It is impossible to park a Ferrari (healthy new belief systems) in a space that is taken up by an old wreck (negative old belief systems).”

Belief Space Taken Impossible Healthy Negative Parks Wrecks Belief Systems Ferrari

Author:Melanie

“You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.”

People Mind Wells Made Decision Opinion Positive Negative

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.”

Faith Impossible Position Prove Intellectual Negative Strikes Proof Arguing Laziness Mistaken Intellectual Laziness

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa.”

Doe Parent Negative Killing Vices Distinguished Vice Versa Affirmative

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.”

Mind May Doe Ideas Play God Pain Enjoy Involved Negative Aspect Labor All Things Absolutes Embrace Unity Earnestness Platitudes Truism

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.”

States Negative Contrary Purity

Book:FAULKNER READER

Source: FAULKNER READER

“The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.”

Way Christianity Negative Contradiction Collapse Packages Describing Agnosticism Props Utterance

Author:George H. Smith

“Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.”

Mean Body Mother Values Eating Conscious Negative Tasks Refuse Poison Unconscious Disorder Destroying Rescue Tolerate Resorts Eating Disorder Allergic Vomiting

Author:Marion Woodman

“In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.”

Humans Wells Two Character Might Human Beings Accepting Class Mankind Offers Negative Instinct Active Significant Host Guests Passive Hospitality

Book:And Even Now

Source: And Even Now

“He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.”

Firsts Humans Feelings Hate Doubt Capable Negative Shame Guilt Males Zone Contempt Twilight Disgusting Trapped Halfway Disgrace Apes Twilight Zone Negative Feelings

Author:Valerie Solanas

“How can we expect something positive to come from all the negative that we put into this world?”

World This World Negative

Author:Gloria Estefan

“The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.”

People Differences Company Situation Information Concern Negative Reactions Command

Book:The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders

Source: The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders

“Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.”

Today Law Energy Principles Particular Negative Regard Aliens Impulse Rejects Unjust Renewal Revolt Obsolete Society Today Renewal Of Life

Book:Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

“This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.”

World Negative Response Reactions

Author:Billy Corgan

“Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one tried and found wanting; and so the entire field of speculation has been gradually exhausted without positive result: the only result reached being the negative one above stated, that the reality existing behind all appearances is, and must ever be, unknown.”

Has Beens Reality Found Results Behinds Fields Theory Negative Criticism Appearance Conception Exhausted Speculation Scepticism Positive Results

Book:Synthetic Philosophy ...: First principles. 1920. [v.2-3] The principles of biology. v.1, rev. & enl. ed., 1921

Source: Synthetic Philosophy ...: First principles. 1920. [v.2-3] The principles of biology. v.1, rev. & enl. ed., 1921

“The correctness of any of our policies has always to be tested and is always being tested by the masses themselves. We ourselves constantly examine our own decisions and policies. We correct our mistakes whenever we find them. We draw conclusions from all positive and negative experiences and apply those conclusions as widely as possible. In these ways relations between the Communist party and the masses of the people are constantly being improved.”

People Way Decision Party Mistake Policy Mass Draws Negative Relation Conclusion Communist Tested Correctness Communist Party Negative Experiences

Author:Mao Zedong

“Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.”

Giving Stills Class Negative Remains Mere Immense Passive

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The peace of our world is indivisible. As long as negative forces are getting the better of positive forces anywhere, we are all at risk.”

World Long Force Peace Risk Negative Our World Indivisible

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God's knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect.”

Men Mind Doe Character Facts Law Given Results Principles Support Doubt Events Negative Intellect Affirmative Insufficiency Future Events

Book:Guide for the perplexed

Source: Guide for the perplexed

“Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.”

Ifs Knows Running America Opinion Negative Like Me Regimes Unfortunate Rumor Headlines Waiter

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason.”

Reason Language Elements Negative Organization Importance Critical Vehicle Discourse Rationality Transcendent Unified Coordination Subordination

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself. However, the recognition of this state of Being its theory intends from the beginning a concrete practice. Seen in the light of a truth which appears in them falsified or denied, the given facts themselves appear false and negative.”

Firsts States Facts Light Given Practice Conditions Theory Ought Negative Structure Critical Recognition Tension Denied Concrete

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.”

Ifs Film Acting Focus Negative Dedication Reminders Time Capsules

Author:Adrien Brody

“Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative thing. Even a positive thing needs to have darkness in it. It needs to have depth.”

Want Needs Actors Darkness Negative Depth Awful Justification Positive Things

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.”

Writing Trying Song Culture Growing Up Growing Negative Stones Catchy Motown Credence

Author:Dan Auerbach

“I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president against Gerald Ford and later against Ronald Reagan we never referred to each other except as 'my distinguished opponent'. And had we criticised personally our opponent it would have been political suicide, we would have been castigated and condemned for it.”

Has Beens Political Nations President Concerned Negative Aspect Suicide Ran Opponents Phenomenon Distinguished Campaigning Political Campaign Gerald Ford

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.”

Thinking Writing Negative Features

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.”

People Thinking Country Running Media Office News Negative Harder Decent Destructive Vicious Public Office News Media

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.”

Thinking Way Helping Problem Used Known Painting Expression Solutions Negative Intention Surface Spokes Expressive Neutrality

Author:Jasper Johns

“Perpetuating success or sliding into decline is the result of many intersecting forces that reinforce one another directly and indirectly. They are both cause and effect of winning or losing. Winning generates positive forces, losing generates negative forces.”

Winning Force Causes Results Effects Losing Negative Decline Cause And Effect Win Or Lose Perpetuating

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Since you are "in the market," you need to set standards of what you are seeking in a partner and in a relationship. Dating is not simply a prelude to a committed relationship or marriage. Dating is an opportunity to evaluate whether the person you are dating is a good candidate for you. You need to pay attention to your partner's positive and negative characteristics. Ask yourself whether you could live with this person for the rest of your life.”

“As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.”

Use Challenges Results Roles Study Teacher Our Lives Students Negative Prison Classroom Use Of Power

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“The misnamed "feminine" woman, so admired by her creator, man - the woman who is acquiescent in her inferiority and who has swallowed man's image of her as his ordained helpmate and no more - is in reality the "masculine" woman. The truly feminine woman "cannot help burning with that inner rage that comes from having to identify with her exploiter's negative image of her," and having to conform to her persecutor's idea of femininity and its man-decreed limitations.”

Men Ideas Helping Reality Negative Creator Rage Burning Limitation Feminine Conform Femininity Masculine Inferiority

Author:Elizabeth Gould Davis

“I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.”

Ifs Men Mind Made Play Running Lasts Found Half Nice Player Minutes Football Huge Terrible Beats Negative Tonight Concerts Fifteen Liverpool Streaks Barcelona Nice Man

Author:Eamon

“These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.”

Situation Economic Tough Negative Unusual

Author:James McNerney

“I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.”

Writing Process Term Quality Heard Negative Reviews Academic Tenure Academic Writing Academic Work

Author:Daniel Drezner

“The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts meant, therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative.”

Thinking Bigs Might Negative Dues Competing Revenue Parting Shortage Announcements Cisco

Author:Kate Warne

“Christmas was on a Sunday in 2005, which had a greater than expected negative impact on retail and classified advertising during the last weekend of our fiscal year. In addition, our California papers had held up well in automotive advertising, but the industry-wide decline in this category reached them in the fourth quarter as well.”

Years Wells Lasts Greater Industry Paper Negative Impact Wide Expected Advertising California Sunday Categories Quarters Weekend Decline Fourth Papers Retail Fourth Quarter

Author:Gary Pruitt

“Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence.”

Needs Firsts May Doe Suffering Meditation Development Skills Negative Bored Persistence Relief Cynical Requirements Discouraged

Author:Ram Dass

“Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up- giving up of everything that belongs to you. What really belongs to you? Only the ego. Love consumes in its flames all preconceived ideas, prejudices and judgments, all those things which stem from the ego. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of all masks. It exposes the Self as it is.”

Source: Awaken Children Vol. 4

“Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.”

Natural Environment Negative Independence Insanity Adjustment Unnatural Perfectly Natural

Author:R. D. Laing

“If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires.”

Ifs Should Self Hard Desire Goal Realizing Prayer Effort Achieve Hard Work Praying Achievement Negative Excellence Supreme Tendencies Sincerely Removal Supreme Being

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“...there are still truths in the Bible and many other ancient texts despite what religions have done to destroy and debase them. Religious dogma and myth have been used very successfully either to suppress understanding or to twist the truth sufficiently to turn something positive into something negative.”

Has Beens Stills Done Used Turns Understanding Religious Negative Ancient Myth Despite Dogma Twists Religious Dogma

Author:David Icke

“We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.”

“Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation. We cannot deny ourselves history, and Fascism was a dictatorship that denied some fundamental freedoms.”

Fighting Causes Sides Negative Fundamentals Deny Dues Limitation Judgement Republic Fascism Denied Dictatorship

Author:Gianfranco Fini

“Subjective reason ... is inclined to abandon the fight with religion by setting up two different brackets, one for science and philosophy, and one for institutionalized mythology, thus recognizing both of them. For the philosophy of objective reason there is no such way out. Since it hold to the concept of objective truth, it must take a positive or a negative stand with regard to the content of established religion.”

Source: Eclipse of Reason

“Known as a negative player, Karpov sets up deep traps and creates moves that seem to allow his opponent possibilities - but that really don't. He takes no chances, and he gives his opponents nothing. He's a trench-warfare fighter who keeps the game moving just an inch at a time.”

Giving Seems Moving Games Chance Known Player Possibility Negative Fighter Opponents Inches Warfare Traps Trenches Karpov

Author:Bruce Pandolfini

“Thanks to the FedDev Ontario funding we were able to get a number of key initiatives underway to mitigate the potential negative economic impact of the Heinz closure. With this additional funding we will continue to be in high gear within the food processing sector to continue with business retention, expansion and attraction activities in the Windsor-Essex region.”

Able Numbers Economic Keys Activity Negative Impact Attraction Thanks Regions Initiative Expansion Funding Gears Closure Processing Retention Ontario Windsor Essex

Author:Sandra Pupatello

“Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a time in the future when we'll be ceaselessly happy and never have to fear negative emotions again. But in chasing all that, we close down the very faculties that permit the happiness we crave.”

Thinking Turns Emotion Knowing Positive Thinking Approach Negative Safety Certainty Related Faculty Permit Chasing Crave Negative Emotions

Author:Oliver Burkeman

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