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“Quit dwelling on the negative things people have said about you. You don’t have to have everyone’s approval. You have God’s approval.”

People Said Negative Quitting Approval Dwelling Negative People

Author:Joel Osteen

“The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.”

Trying Said Hard Motivational Solutions Tough Negative Difficulty Average Thinker Realist Factual Positive Thinker

Book:Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

“I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.”

People Said Poor Class Rich Middle Gratitude Deserve Negative Middle Class Poor People Negative Words

Author:Bernard Goldberg

“There's a school of thought that says if you legalize drugs it will solve the problem. We're all good liberals, we said let's do it and see what happens. We wanted to be honest about it. So in our brainstorming sessions we'd say, what if? The finding was that all the negative things came out also. The answer is that we didn't believe in the full legalization of drugs. But we don't believe in the criminalization of drugs, either.”

Ifs Believe Said Problem Happens Wanted School Answers Honest Drug Findings Negative Don't Believe Solve Being Honest What If Session Brainstorming

Author:George Pelecanos

“People who don't like you almost never come up to you. That's a lot of years of saying things that I know a lot of people in this country hate me for. And the number of times someone has come up to me and said something negative, I could count on one hand.”

People Knows Years Said Country Hands Hate Numbers Like You Negative Come Up Up To You Hate Me

Author:Bill Maher

“Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.”

“I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'”

Mind Said Challenges Negative Mind Set

Author:Troy Polamalu

“I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.”

Thinking Children Said Hard Done Parent Negative Our Children Your Children

Author:Pattie Mallette

“Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole once said that "life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy to the man who feels." Comedy is negative; it is a criticism of limitations and an unwillingness to accept them. Tragedy is positive; it is an uncritical acceptance of the positive content of that which is delimited. Since comedy deals with the limitations of actual situations and tragedy with their positive content, comedy must ridicule and tragedy must endorse.”

Thinking Men Feels Said Life Is Values Deals Situation Accepting Comedy Acceptance Emotional He Man Intellectual Negative Criticism Logic Tragedy Affair Limitation Ridicule

Author:James Kern Feibleman

“When an image is said to be singular, it is meant that it is absolutely determinate in all respects. Every possible character, or the negative thereof, must be true of such an image.”

Said Character Negative Being True

Book:The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

“Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal hot waters if you say anything negative about Islam. This means that the truth about Islam cannot be said but Muslims are given total freedom to spread their religion with lies. Islam thrives were truth is suppressed. That is one reason that westerners convert to Islam. They are lied to. How do you expect a society to survive when truth is banned and lies are allowed?”

“Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in a negative way, you've got to check yourself sometimes and say, "Maybe I don't like the way that this thing is said, but it's expanding tolerance." If I said something that was shutting down something that was positive, call me out, but I don't really see me doing that.”

Ifs Way Said Sometimes Done Courses Opinion Changed Negative Tolerance Checks Call Me Expanding Public Opinion Shutting Down Check Yourself

Author:Lizz Winstead

“Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.”

Thinking Said Fun Term Negative Prejudice West East Tales Genre Having Fun Fairy Fairy Tale Accurate Representation Cowboy Exotic American West Orientalism

Author:Craig Thompson

“The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it.”

Ifs World Littles Said Moments Happened Late Negative Ultimate Absolutes Conviction Too Late Subtle

Book:Trask: A Novel

Source: Trask: A Novel

“It`s probably fair to say I have taken myself too seriously on some jobs. I`m sure I`m more guilty of being difficult than I`d like to remember. I don`t regret my desires; I`ve regretted the way I would communicate my desires. Maybe I`ve lost a job because of some rumor, I doubt it. But nobody good that I`ve worked with has ever said anything negative about me, because we`ve never had a negative experience. By good, I mean directors who do their homework, people that are passionate, crazy, never sleep, and do like I do and just go after it.”

“When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.”

People Said Stills States Wanted Stuff Chance Growing Up Growing Ambition Models Negative I Realized My Ambition

Author:Katie Price

“What would you do if someone said to you: "You're so popular right now that you can be on the cover of every magazine, but if you do that, you might get overexposed and a backlash will develop"? That's life. Everything has positive and negative consequences.”

Ifs Said Might Right Now Consequence Negative Magazines Backlash Negative Consequences

Author:Farrah Fawcett

“Einstein said if somebody time and again does something, or tries to do something, with the same negative results, and continues to insist on doing so, then he's a fool. This strategy carried out, applied by the United States in Colombia, has been a total failure.”

Ifs Trying Doe Has Beens Said States United Results United States Fool Negative Strategy Colombia

Author:Rafael Correa

“I guess the negative thing that happens to me is that I'm old now. They said there was a generation I was too young for and now some will say there's probably 10 generations I'm too old for. They'll say, isn't he dead or retired or whatever? Or it just becomes fashionable to say "Oh he's not funny anymore," which, I don't know, maybe to them I'm not. I'm more likely to hear that now than I am to hear that I'm unacceptably risqué.”

Knows Said Happens Young Generations Negative They Said Retired Fashionable

Author:Dave Barry

“I have never said a negative thing about anybody, even when the whole world was saying I was gay because Renée Zellweger cited fraud.”

World Said Whole Gay Negative Whole World Fraud

Author:Kenny Chesney

“I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over. So when the rude or cruel thing is said - the lambasting, the gay bashing, the hate - I say, "Take it all out of my house!" Those negative words climb into the woodwork and into the furniture, and the next thing you know they'll be on my skin.”

Ifs Knows Mind Believe Said Hate Next House I Believe Gay Negative Skins Convinced Statements Poison Climbs Rude Furniture Negative Words

Author:Maya Angelou

“Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) "thou shalt not" predominates unduly over "thou shalt.”

“He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.' 'What's so negative about it?' I said. 'What could be a more negative word than "futility"?' he said. '"Ignorance,"' I said.”

Want Children Said Found Talking Ignorance Messages Daughter Negative Responsible Library Complicated My Daughter Futility Negative Words

Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”

Has Beens Said Running Negative Running Away Again And Again Gloomy

Book:The Corrections: A Novel

Source: The Corrections: A Novel

“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.”

“Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.”

Said Effects Morality Activity Negative Code Officials Forbidden

Book:Sceptical Essays

Source: Sceptical Essays

“Right," she said, "We're going to the Land of the Dead and I shouldn't think negative.”

Thinking Said Land Positive Negative

Author:Rick Riordan

“Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.”

Source: A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment

“Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.”

Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir

“Holly frowned at her. "Glad to see you've forgiven yourself so quickly." "Harboring feelings of guilt can have a negative affect on mental health." "Child geniuses," growled Holly. "Genii," said Minerva.”

Children Said Feelings Genius Negative Guilt Mental Health Glad Forgiven Hollies Minerva Holly Short

Book:Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony

Source: Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony

“Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into the city where he had almost been stoned to death, and he said, "Hey, about that sermon I didn't finish preaching - here it is!"”

Said Body Cities Attitude Negative Hey Preaching Bloody Dirt Sermons Negative Attitude

Author:John Hagee

“I told him that for a modern scientist, practicing experimental research, the least that could be said, is that we do not know. But I felt that such a negative answer was only part of the truth. I told him that in this universe in which we live, unbounded in space, infinite in stored energy and, who knows, unlimited in time, the adequate and positive answer, according to my belief, is that this universe may, also, possess infinite potentialities.”

Knows May Said Science Universe Belief Energy Felt Space Answers Modern Research Negative Scientist Infinite Unlimited Adequate

Author:Albert Claude

“I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white sheet on the board with a dot in the right hand corner and said, "Boys, what do you see?" And we all shouted, a black dot. He stood back and said, "not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet, you all saw the black dot." He went on to tell us to focus on the broader picture, don't focus on the negative.”

Men Said Stories Hands Inspiration School Young Used Black White Boys Saws Focus High School Negative Corners Boards Young Man Broads Professors Sheets Dots

Author:Kofi Annan

“If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.”

Ifs Love Life Said Success Friendship Negative Love Life

Author:Scott Boras

“Tertön Sogyal, the Tibetan Mystic, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into water. A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.”

Ifs Inspirational Said Real Turns Water Emotion Fire Negative Miracle Just One Impressed Ceilings Mystic Tibetan Negative Emotions

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“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

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