Best negative & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.”

Thinking Kind Levels Happened Negative Cynical Sophisticated Earnest Connotation

Author:Josh Radnor

“Who do you think of first in the morning? Good manipulators do it in the dream plane. The morning practice of meditation increases the aura to ward of negative energy. Meditate before bed if you are being attacked psychically.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Dream Energy Practice Morning Meditation Bed Negative Increase Planes Good Man Auras Negative Energy Manipulator

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you see deterioration in the skin or the hair, you are having problems with the subtle body. You're taking in too much bad energy, usually from people, or you're thinking too many negative thoughts. You are pulling an energy that is not suitable for the human form.”

People Thinking Humans Problem Body Form Energy Too Much Hair Negative Skins Subtle Pulling Suitable Negative Thoughts Human Form Deterioration Bad Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are people who will think of you in negative ways. You will feel it sometimes. It can actually be physically painful if they're somewhat powerful. You simply have to remove yourself inwardly from these individuals.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Sometimes Individual Powerful Negative Painful Remove Think Of You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.”

Thinking Mind Wells Sometimes Sides Creative Negative Connotation

Author:Alexander Wang

“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”

Source: The diary of a young girl

“I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.”

Thinking Knows Littles Faces Father Parent Poor Taste Negative Britain Swimming Say Anything Glee Poor Taste Little Britain

Author:David Walliams

“Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests.”

Thinking Grows Tree Positive Thinking Negative Forests Negative Thoughts

Author:John Assaraf

“I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.”

Thinking Book Feelings Darkness Fans Negative Pursuit Enormous Relentless

Author:Ben Marcus

“I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.”

Thinking Humans Human Beings Negative Flaws Traits Foibles

Author:Denise Mina

“I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.”

Thinking Want Book Shows Girl Reading Party Clothes Negative Buying My Birthday Birthday Party Virgos

Author:Rachel Zoe

“I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.”

Thinking Type Negative

Author:Peter Steele

“We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative. A person is great not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. Asceticism and mortification are not the ends of a Christian life; they are only the means. The end is charity. Penance merely makes an opening in our ego in which the Light of God can pour. As we deflate ourselves, God fills us. And it is God’s arrival that is the important event.”

“Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.”

“Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.”

Thinking Should Evil Opportunity Strong Forget Worry Amount Waste Negative Program Roots Impact Critical Speed Enormous Efficiency Programmers Maintenance Premature Optimization Debugging

Author:Donald Knuth

“I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.”

Thinking Needs Anxiety Negative Believer Firm Negative Thinking

Author:Gertrude Berg

“I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.”

People Thinking Way Persons Easier Perception Negative Embrace General Public

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.”

Ifs Thinking Years Done Economy Risk Negative Reactions Negative Reactions Bond Market

Author:Franklin Raines

“Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail on water all around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.”

People Thinking World Mind Humans Persons Enough Water Justice Negative Ships Around The World Destructive Human Mind Sail Negative Thoughts

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“People who complain often say things like, 'I'm not being negative, I'm just being realistic.' Really? How is it anymore 'realistic' to focus on and talk about things that discourage us and make us feel bad, than to focus on and talk about the POSITIVE aspects of life that make us feel GOOD? Both area equally REALISTIC, but which you choose to dwell on has a very different impact on the quality of YOUR life.”

People Thinking Feels Different Quality Focus Areas Negative Aspect Impact Complaining Feel Good Realistic You Choose Being Real Just Being Discouraging Aspects Of Life Thinking Differently

Author:Hal Elrod

“Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing those with very bright images.”

Thinking Mind Meditation Negative Wander Usual Replacements

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to look at your own thought forms. Are you sitting around and thinking a lot of negative thoughts? These injure the subtle body. When you hate, when you are angry, you bring that energy through you.”

Thinking Looks Body Form Hate Energy Buddhism Mindfulness Sitting Negative Angry Subtle Negative Thoughts Sitting Around

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Moments Energy Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Down And Angry That Moment Jealous Pauses Negative Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I have vision boards, and people think that I put the vision board up and I look at it all the time, but what I do is, when I'm having an emotional time and I'm stressed out or feeling bad, I go to the store and get all the stuff for a vision board. Instead of channeling the negative thoughts or being depressed, I change it around and I start making boards.”

People Thinking Looks Feelings Stuff Vision Emotional Negative Stores Boards Stressed Negative Thoughts Channeling Stressed Out Feeling Bad Being Depressed Vision Board

Author:Ester Dean

“Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.”

Thinking Lasts Friendship Negative Superiority

Author:Honore de Balzac

“For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.”

Thinking Habit Negative Addiction Negative Thinking

Author:Peter McWilliams

“Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.”

People Thinking Jesus Religious Simple Practice Taught Majors Negative Police Violent Hateful Liberated Negative Thoughts Religious Practices

Author:Richard Rohr

“Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no longer an attraction. So, I think that the dropping of the denominational label is to become more generic, less of a threat, less of a reminder of negative stereotypes if you've walked away from church.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Jesus Church Negative Institutions Threat Attraction Labels Vietnam Stereotype Distrust Reminders Dropping Generic Watergate Negative Stereotypes

Author:Eddie Gibbs

“People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Seems Asks Steps Player Negative Ask Me Insult Ems Keyboards New Music Keyboard Players

Author:Noel Gallagher

“A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions”

Thinking Looks Doe Form Results Worst Conditions Positive Thinking Negative Refuse Thinker Positive Thinker

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.”

Thinking Results Positive Thinking Negative Negative Thinking Positive Thinking In Life

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct emotional intensity. For example, if you develop a habit of saying you 'hate' things - you 'hate' your hair; you 'hate' your job; you 'hate' having to do something - do you think this raises the intensity of your negative emotional states more than if you use a phrase like 'I prefer something else'?”

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“Become conscious of what you think during the day. A negative thought will enter you. At first it will be vague, innocuous, but then it will root in your consciousness and soon it will be impossible to eradicate.”

Thinking Firsts Consciousness Impossible Buddhism Conscious Negative Roots Purity Vague Negative Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you are wondering whether to say something negative about someone - even if it is true - the best rule to follow is, "I'll think about doing this tomorrow."”

Ifs Thinking Women Wonder Tomorrow Negative

Author:Amy Dickinson

“We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in America really serious efforts to break down discrimination in housing, and at the same time a concerted program of government aid to improve housing for Negroes, I think that many white people would be surprised at how many Negroes would choose to live among themselves, exactly as Poles and Jews and other ethnic groups do.”

“Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.”

Thinking May Form Emotion Behavior Negative Optimism Addiction Familiar Pleasant Destructive Invoke Negative Thinking Destructive Behavior

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Relief is a great feeling.It's the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to bask in the lack of the negative.And yet, think about it—relief is really the status quo, a negation of the suffering, a nothing in itself. It is the way things were before the pressure and struggle began.So, is it a step back? A regression?Or is it an opportunity to regroup, start over, and move in a different direction?Use your moment of relief well.”

“It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.”

Source: Killosophy

“I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.”

Thinking Knows Men Poor Know How Too Much Fool Habit Healthy Eating Negative Excellent Unhealthy Connotation Eating Habits

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It's very hard, I think, for critics to write positive reviews, because there's not that much to say about something you like. You can kind of say 'I really like that band' and then if you're forced to fill up the rest of an article, you've got to start saying heady things. It's much easier to say negative things in a review.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Kind Hard Like You Easier Band Negative Critics Reviews Articles

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.”

People Thinking Knows Want Doe Sometimes Play Negative Temperature Think Positive

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.”

Thinking Children Littles Enjoy Company Virtue Too Much Modern Negative Importance Educational Merit Interfere Theorists

Book:In praise of idleness: and other essays

Source: In praise of idleness: and other essays

“If you think about determination, if people have a heart and are determined, they can get to that place. But there are a lot of negative people who were enormously determined. All the Nazis were determined. They wanted to murder everyone. Everyone with a bad heart, who doesn't care about people, I wish they hadn't started.”

People Ifs Thinking Heart Care Wanted Wish Negative Determination Murder Determined Nazi Negative People Bad Heart

Author:Eddie Izzard

“There's a lot of negative things trying to pull people down, and I think people respond when you tell them that hey, there are good things up ahead.”

People Thinking Trying Negative Down And Good Things Hey

Author:Joel Osteen

“I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back.”

People Thinking Negative

Author:Joel Osteen

“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 don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some are very knowledgeable about painting. But it isn't something I have any influence over, so there isn't any point in worrying about it.”

Thinking Feels Writing Real Worry Influence Painting Negative Critics Knowledgeable Animosity

Author:Peter Doig

“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

“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

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