Best negative & term Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway. If you can overcome the negative energy coming from your tired body or unmotivated mind, you will grow and become better. It won’t be the best workout you have, you won’t accomplish as much as what you usually do when you actually feel good, but that doesn’t matter. Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.”

“The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.”

Mind Hard Wanted Fun Goal Term Serious Calling Pure Negative Lifetime Finals Alternatives Analysis Occupation Offering Short Term Hippie Colorful

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.”

Long Important Would Be Term Interest Wealth Effects Negative Rate Spending Long Term Decline Interest Rate

Author:Joseph Barbera

“Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, "You're based." They'd use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, "Yeah, I'm based." I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive.”

People Thinking Mean Made Use Used Turns Fun Term Mines Like You Negative Yeah Scared Made It Being Yourself Being Positive Being Afraid Embedded Being Scared

Author:Lil B

“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

“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

“We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.”

Feels Long Reason Action President Term Judging Citizens Consequence Negative Impact Campaigns Long Term Presidency Comeback Public Trust

Author:David Greenberg

“I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times. And I think that whatever part Playboy played and that I managed to play in terms of the sexual revolution came out of what I saw in the negative part of that life and tried to change things in some positive way so that people could choose alternate personal ways of living their lives.”

People Thinking Way Play Home Term Hurt Saws Revolution Negative Raised Hypocrisy Typical Puritan Playboy Methodists Sexual Revolution

Author:Hugh Hefner

“Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what one might call the affirmative use of a term is basic--that, to understand 'x,' we need to know what it is to be x, or to be an x, and that knowing this apprises us of what it is not to be x, not to be an x. But with 'real' (as we briefly noted earlier) it is the negative use that wears the trousers.”

Knows Needs May Real Use Might Next Language Term Knowing Negative Dare Affirmative Trousers

Author:J. L. Austin

“In order to develop the willpower it takes to sacrifice, you must first realize that spending all your time and energy pursuing material comforts means you will eventually suffer. It's all about positive and negative consequences. It's very important to be aware that there are long-term consequences [for every action].”

Firsts Mean Long Important Action Suffering Order Energy Term Realizing Sacrifice Materials Comfort Consequence Negative Spending Long Term Willpower Time And Energy Negative Consequences

Author:Dalai Lama

“I think for me in terms of this kind of dichotomy you have to hold the sense of negative capability in your mind - which is Keats line about being able to hold two different ideas 'without any irritable reach after fact or reason.'”

Thinking Mind Kind Two Ideas Different Reason Facts Able Term Lines Negative Capability Dichotomy Different Ideas

Author:Anne Waldman

“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

“I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked back at the 20th and 21st centuries a thousand years from now, what their perception of the car would be. Or of television. I wonder if over time, they'll be seen as this thing that drove the culture, but ultimately had more downside than upside.”

Ifs Thinking Years Long Would Be Culture Term Wonder Technology Century Car Television Thousand Perception Negative Long Term Thousand Years 21st Century Short Term

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“I don't think irony is about judgment; I think irony is something like, "Oh, that's interesting," because it's not something I think one starts off to achieve. I think it's just something that presents itself. And if it does, I find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Term Interesting Achieve Judgment Negative Optimistic Irony

Author:Jeff Koons

“In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation of Iraq.”

May Term Policy Negative Iraq Mindset Occupation Democratization

Author:Gilles Kepel

“I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think that the terminology ought to prejudice us one way or the other. So I think the more descriptive term is 'liberty rights' versus 'welfare rights'. So, liberty rights are freedom-of-action type rights, and welfare rights are rights-to-stuff, of various kinds...And, property rights are not rights-to-stuff. I think that's one of the key misunderstandings about property. Property rights are the rights to liberty within your jurisdiction.”

“I mean these are universal themes. I try not to preach, for sure. I don't enjoy movies that preach - so I don't want to preach myself when I tell stories because I just feel all of these themes are built into us in terms of redemption and mercy and love and compassion and all these things. And the negative sides, as well.”

Want Feels Trying Wells Mean Stories Enjoy Sides Term Compassion Built Negative Mercy And Love Universal Redemption Theme Love And Compassion Universal Themes

Author:Michael Landon, Jr.

“My debut single "Pointless Relationship" is about a girl's view of where the relationship is going with her partner and it sounds like a negative term. But the song is more of an empowering song from a woman's perspective! It's the life of them together and it's just never going to go where it should go, and so she's saying to him this is a pointless relationship.”

Should Together Song Girl Sound Term Views Perspective Negative Partners Empowering Pointless Debut

Author:Tammin Sursok

“German can take a lot more pathos than English can. When you say "pathetic" in English it's a disparaging term, but when you say "pathetisch" in German it's just a description, not necessarily negative. That says a lot already.”

Term Negative Description Pathetic Pathos Disparaging

Author:Daniel Kehlmann

“I am of the opinion, and have been for a long time, that any kind of big technological move is almost always positive in the short term but inevitably somewhat negative in the long term. And I think there are many examples of this in every possible context.”

Thinking Kind Long Has Beens Bigs Moving Term Opinion Example Long Time Negative Long Term Technological Short Term

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be measured in terms of its political effect. It's the very spiritual uplift of the nation. It's the very tenor and tone, morally speaking, of what this country is about. And so the unleashing of these fierce and ferocious beliefs have a potential impact that is quite deleterious, quite negative, quite destructive. And I think we have to say something.”

Thinking Country Spiritual Political Belief Nations Term Talking Effects Trump Negative Impact Uplifting Tone Extras Destructive Fierce Tenors Unleashing

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.”

I Can Hard Given Term Attention Produce Creating Negative Pressure Meaningful Intense Sensitive Engaged Accurate Best Work Scrutiny Harassment Hyper Tropes

Author:Anita Sarkeesian

“When consequentialist theories are developed in terms of an equally shallow psychology of the good - such as a crude form of hedonism - the results can sometimes strike sensible people as revolting and inhuman. People can be reduced to simple repositories of positive or negative sensory states, and their humanity is lost sight of entirely.”

People Sometimes States Form Humanity Lost Term Simple Results Psychology Theory Negative Sight Strikes Sensible Shallow Crude Sensory Inhuman Hedonism

Author:Allen W. Wood

“You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.”

Believe Helping Term Office Projects Negative Opposites Get Back Defining

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“Here's a philosophical rule of thumb: always start with the negative definitions. Negative definitions are always easier to understand. So, here's a negative definition. We must not conceive difference in terms of the differences we find between things that already exist. Difference is not empirical differences.”

Term Negative Philosophical

Author:Leonard Lawlor

“There is a built-in mechanism by which we respond fairly strongly and fairly negatively to somebody who is being negative or to somebody who is simply disagreeing with us, in which case it's a very unhappy position for our brain to be in. Our brain does not want us to be wrong. Because that has very dire consequences in terms of our overall survival.”

Term Brain Survival Consequence Negative Unhappy Want U

Author:Andrew B. Newberg

“Millennials are an easy group to identify in terms of their appearance and are therefore highly subject to being stereotyped. When a negative stereotype about a group is relevant to performance on a specific task, it is referred to as "stereotype threat." Individuals who are highly identified with a particular group may experience increased susceptibility to stereotype threat.Understanding perceptions and why they may exist helps to explain and demystify tension and conflict that surfaces as a result of generational discord.”

Helping Individual Easy Understanding Term Conflict Perception Negative Threat Appearance Tension Relevant Stereotype

Author:Chip Espinoza

“There's a lot of responsibility involved in sharing a very personal story with a lot of people, and it's easier for others not to know about things - and I know that. But in terms of the general climate, socially, these are things people have to deal with on a daily basis. We hear so many negative stories but rarely do we get positivity. We have memes of cute cats and puppies and things like that, but if they didn't exist, people would be a lot more unhappy. We need more things like that.”

People Term Responsibility Negative Cat Positivity Unhappy Cute Puppy

Author:Jennifer Lee

“In terms of feminism, I would just ask young women to keep an open mind about it and try to learn about it before they write it off or believe the negative stereotypes that surround it. Feminism can help you on a personal level, it can offer you an incredible community of brilliant and impassioned people, and can change the way you see the world if you just open yourself up to it. I think that goes for all causes as well.”

People Thinking World Writing Trying Mind Believe Helping Term Community Feminism Negative Incredibles Brilliant Surround Young Women Stereotype Open Mind Keep An Open Mind

Author:Julie Zeilinger

“Even in relativity theory even though you can analyze space - time in terms of this four-dimensional geometrical structure one of the dimensions is different. And this shows up in the equations. It has a different sign - rather than plus it shows up as a negative minus. So even in relativity theory time is distinct from space in terms of the way in which these dimensions manifest themselves in the equations.”

Different Term Negative Manifest

Author:William Lane Craig

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.”

People Ifs Knows Want Long Desire Term Quality Goes On Negative Focused Appeals Dedication Obsessive Psychosis Single Mindedness

Author:Callum Keith Rennie

“…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term “internalized racism”- a term most often used to suggest that black people have absorbed negative feelings and attitudes about blackness. The term “white supremacy” enables us to recognize not only that black people are socialized to embody the values and attitudes of white supremacy, but we can exercise “white supremacist control” over other black people.”

“If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.”

Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

“And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.”

Source: Lean In for Graduates

“Not every bad break is negative in the long term; not every problem is a bona fide injustice; and not every injustice is major when juxtaposed against the millions of injustices that occur daily throughout the world.”

World Long Problem Term Break Millions Majors Negative Adversity Injustice Long Term

Book:Getting what You Want: The Seven Principles of Rational Living

Source: Getting what You Want: The Seven Principles of Rational Living

“Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.”

Thinking Mind Long Success Term Chance Attitude Negative Mental Health Mental Illness Long Term Diminish Negative Thinking Tattooed Long Term Success

Book:Developing the Leader Within You

Source: Developing the Leader Within You

“Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.”

Long Use Energy Goal Growth Term Environment Negative Regard Rate Climate Change Long Term Zero Realistic Modest Analysts Long Term Goals Energy Use

Author:Amory Lovins

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