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“Just because I'm sassy and have a mouth on me doesn't mean I'm coming from a negative place.”

Author:Kesha

“Nowadays with the internet, it's an equal opportunity brutal playing field. I mean, everyone is brutal to everybody half the time. People can be unbelievably brutal on the internet, about everything. But they can also be really, really nice. The problem is that human beings like to focus on the negative sometimes, unfortunately.”

People Humans Mean Sometimes Problem Opportunity Human Beings Half Focus Nice Fields Internet Equal Negative Brutal Really Nice Equal Opportunity Playing Fields

Author:Lea Thompson

“Denial of numerous problems can happen in any organization, and I don't mean this as flip or negative as it's going to sound, but you see it a lot in corporate cultures right before they hit a wall. People tell themselves a story that it can turn around, it's going to turn around, we're doing all the right things, and then that story lasts until it's literally no longer sustainable or believable.”

People Mean Problem Culture Wall Negative Denial Right Thing

Author:Chris Lowney

“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.”

Giving Mean Negative Response

Author:Damon Lindelof

“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.”

Mean Language Taken Negative Stronger Complicated Point Of View Poetic Gaelic

Author:Gavin Friday

“In a way, I think that the movie Fight Club [1999] did a weird, negative thing to boxing, culturally. I mean, it is sort of similar to what has happened to the novel. For however many good novels are written, the novel itself has completely lost its place.”

Thinking Mean Fighting Novel Negative Boxing

Author:James Toback

“Any negative review you write, they'll say, "Oh, you're being so mean." I think the problem with a lot of criticism is that too many critics either write just description or they write in a Mandarin jargon that only a handful of people can understand, or they write happy criticis - everything is good that they write about. I think that's really not good. I think it's damaged a lot of our critical voices.”

People Thinking Writing Mean Problem Negative Criticism Critics

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I'm happy to say I haven't received that much negative feedback. I'm always thrilled when I get feedback from young people, particularly from The New Normal, young gay people - when they say they want that when they grow up, that means a lot to me. As a kid growing up, I didn't really have a lot of gay role models on television, so it's nice to be part of a movement that gives some more of those.”

People Giving Mean Kids Growing Up Nice Gay Negative Role Models Feedback Gay People

Author:Andrew Rannells

“I don't need any crutches in order to concentrate. As a child I learned that you must be ready because I'd be yelled at more than other people and it would always be my fault. I learned that to be professional is your number-one priority. The art comes second. You learn that, in order to give your best performance, you have to be a good technician, which means never allowing negative influences affect your performance.”

People Giving Mean Children Art Influence Negative Priorities

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we suppress negative emotions, which we've been taught to be shameful of and hide, such as pain, anger, sorrow, and resentment. I take these complex and varied emotions surrounded by obscurity, absurdity, contradiction, and events out of our control such as tragedy, and project them in my work. So I understand that the images can generate fear, confusion, and anxiety in the audience, and if they're difficult to turn away from, it only means that my intention has been communicated.”

Mind Mean Pain Desire Difficult Hurt Loss Emotion Audience Sorrow Anxiety Negative Tragedy Intention Confusion Contradiction Resentment Absurdity Shameful

Author:Hyon Gyon

“The individual attributes of warmth and competence are often perceived to be negatively correlated. That doesn't mean they actually are, but that's how people perceive the world. So, cruel people, those who gave negative book reviews, for instance, were seen as less likeable but as more intelligent.”

People World Mean Book Individual Negative Intelligent Perceive Warmth Competence Likeable Book Review

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“One thing about winning a Pulitzer, it means you know what the first three words of your obituary will be: Pulitzer Prize-winner. After winning the Pulitzer, I couldn't help but notice how people suddenly looked at me with a newfound respect, and would say, "He's an expert." On the negative side, I developed a terrible case of writer's block for awhile, because I felt like readers would expect every one of my columns to be prize worthy.”

People Mean Helping Winning Terrible Negative Worthy Block Prize Three Words

Author:Clarence Page

“At the end of the day, for people in this position, you just need to make something that feels like you're expressing yourself honestly, something that you'd want to listen to. The rest of the aesthetic is kind of bullshit, and I don't mean that in a negative way - just that it's a choice.”

People Kind Mean Choices Like You Negative Honestly Aesthetic Bullshit Express Yourself

Author:Robin Pecknold

“My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.”

World Mean Doe War Ends Attitude Poverty Violence This World Negative Definitions Discrimination Factors Inequality Really Mean My Attitude

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“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

“To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon accepting being loved by God, and therefore to believe is to say Yes, not only to him, but to creation, to creatures, above all, to men, to try to see the image of God in each person and thereby to become a lover. That's not easy, but the basic Yes, the conviction that God has created men, that he stands behind them, that they aren't simply negative, gives love a reference point that enables it to ground hope on the basis of faith.”

Knows Men Giving Trying Believe Mean Persons Christian Evil Easy Behinds Accepting Creation Lovers Creatures Negative Bases Conviction Core Being Loved God Image Christian Hope

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

Men Mean Reason Facts Form Literature Quality Doubt Mystery Achievement Capable Negative Uncertainty Reaching Capability Possessed

Author:John Keats

“..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he might have inside him that he's already like a corpse even though he's still alive. Because truly nasty people hate everyone, to be sure, but most of all themselves. Can't you tell when a person hates himself? He becomes a living cadaver, it numbs all his negative emotions but also all the good ones so he won't feel nauseated by who he is.”

People Men Feels Mean Persons Stills Might Hate Emotion Alive Negative Nasty Corpses Negative Emotions Cadavers Nasty People

Author:Muriel Barbery

“What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen teenager.”

People Mean Ideas Might Easy Practice Negative Teenager Abandon Good Ideas Speakers Spouse Infant Negative People Toddler Sullen Motivational Speakers

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo?”

Thinking Way Mean Might Gone Thousand Ten Negative Miles Realistic Squares Shopping Malls Cuckoos

Author:Douglas Coupland

“Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.”

Firsts Mean Lasts Felt Space Cutting Eternal First Time Negative Breaths Victim Drowning Solidity Negative Space

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before”

Knows Love Life Wells Mean Joy Grief Consciousness Sorrow Negative Disappointment Fulfillment Intensity Love Means

Book:Love and will

Source: Love and will

“You just can't live that negative way. You know what I mean. Make way for the positive day. Cause it's a new day.”

Knows Way Mean Causes Positive Negative New Day Positive Day

Author:Bob Marley

“If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life. Its something we should live to the full, to the end of our days. Where if you're religious and you believe in another life somehow, that means you don't live this life to the full because you think you're going to get another one. That's an awfully negative way to live a life. Being a atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily and fully”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Should Believe Mean Ends Beautiful Religious Atheism Negative Atheist This Life Beautiful Life Way To Live Another Life Precious Life

Author:Richard Dawkins

“It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.”

Men Mind Mean Body Pleasure Deals Quality Virtue Negative Ideals Possessed Mind And Body Robust Hardy Scorned

Book:Strategy Six Pack 2

Source: Strategy Six Pack 2

“Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.”

Mean Shows Emotion Negative Guests Doorstep Negative Emotions Unwelcome Brokenhearted

Author:Deepak Chopra

“People have one of two extreme reactions to my book. They either throw it across the room, or they rush out and buy 10 copies. The message I'm giving out, that what we think about becomes true for us, and negative thoughts mean good things don't happen, isn't always easy for some people to take.”

People Thinking Giving Mean Two Book Happens Easy Rooms Self Help Messages Negative Good Things Extremes Reactions Copies Negative Thoughts Two Extremes

Author:Louise Hay

“Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough. . . . Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?”

Want Mean Persons Doe Enough Kids Certain Black Race Members Basketball Negative Want Me Being Positive

Author:Michael Jordan

“Spiritual seeking means knowing this negative part: that desiring is the root cause of frustration. To desire is to create, of one`s own accord, a shell. Desiring is the world. To be worldly is to desire and to go on desiring, never becoming aware that each desire comes to nothing but frustration. Once you become aware of this, then you do not desire, or your only desire is to know what is.”

Knows World Mean Spiritual Desire Causes Knowing Goes On Becoming Negative Roots Seeking Frustration Shells Worldly Accord Root Cause

Author:Rajneesh

“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

“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

“But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.”

People Way Firsts Mean Use Cry Negative Decided Ultimate Cancer Shock Initials Paranoia

Author:Herbie Mann

“Engaging in an authentic, meaningful conversation with consumers will be the key to marketing success and growth, even if that means acknowledging negative feedback; transparency is paramount.”

Ifs Mean Growth Keys Conversation Negative Marketing Social Media Meaningful Consumers Engaging Feedback Transparency Paramount Negative Feedback Meaningful Conversations

Author:Ron Blake

“When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of women, then that means that she is no longer allowed to live out her own identity and that, instead, an abstract, negative religion is being made into a tyrannical standard that everyone must follow. That is then seemingly freedom — for the sole reason that it is liberation from the previous situation.”

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