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“It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.”

Thinking Giving Looks Persons Feelings Acting Negative Looking Good Never Quit Spooky Look At Yourself Negative Feelings

Author:Steve Martin

“I use music and mantras that transform my thoughts from the negative to the positive. If I'm thinking the world is a horrible place, I can transform my life by saying, 'I won't give up', 'I won't worry my life away' and 'I won't hesitate no more', using these lyrics to change my experience. That is, I believe, what makes me seem like a positive person.”

Ifs Thinking World Giving Believe Persons I Can Use Seems I Believe Worry Giving Up Negative Horrible My Thoughts Mantras Positive Person Won't Give Up I Won't Give Up

Author:Jason Mraz

“Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.”

Thinking Helping Used Quality Negative Drinking Shyness

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost always with a negative undercurrent that makes me furious.”

Thinking Firsts Negative Aspect Islam Horrible Furious

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.”

People Thinking News Negative Features Interviews Pet Users Feedback Disappointing Your Favorite

Author:Emmett Shear

“Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about where it is you want to be doing and want to be going, but also be smart enough that you are essentially listening to criticism, negative feedback, competitive entries.”

Thinking Want Enough Able Belief Listening Smart Negative Criticism Founders Feedback Entry Being Smart Negative Feedback

Author:Reid Hoffman

“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

“I will always encourage people to seek out the word of God, because I do believe that THAT is where truth really comes from. I believe that when things go wrong if you instead of looking at that as a negative, you choose to rejoice in all things. It's the hardest thing in the world but I think that that is what ultimately leads to happiness.”

People Ifs Thinking World Believe I Believe Negative All Things Hardest Word Of God You Choose Rejoice Hardest Thing When Things Go Wrong

Author:Matty Mullins

“Music is an emotion and it makes you feel a certain way. Some songs make you want to dance, while some make you think. Some songs are positive, while some people see those songs as negative.”

People Thinking Way Want Feels Certain Song Emotion Music Is Negative Make You Think

Author:Lil' Flip

“We [chefs] are competitive, although I think you need to be careful with competitiveness as it can become quite negative.”

Thinking Needs Negative Careful Be Careful Chef Competitiveness

Author:Paul Rankin

“I'd tax the Daily Mail [if I were a Prime Minister] so high no one could afford to buy it. I hate that paper, I think it's really vicious. I picked one up the other day and every single page is about hate. It's just so negative.”

Ifs Thinking Hate Taxes Paper Pages Negative I Hate Ministers Prime Mail Prime Minister Vicious Daily Mail

Author:Jason Flemyng

“If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That's still incoherence. It's not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Stills Enough Pain Causes Acting Trouble Positive Thinking Negative Overcoming Positive Thoughts Somewhere Else Negative Thoughts Incoherence

Book:Thought as a System

Source: Thought as a System

“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 only thing that can possibly keep you from going after your dreams is the person standing in your shoes, wearing your clothes, and thinking your negative thoughts.”

Thinking Persons Dream Clothes Negative Standing Shoes Your Dreams Negative Thoughts

Book:It's Not Over Until You Win: How to Become the Person You Always Wanted to Be No Matter What the Obstacle

Source: It's Not Over Until You Win: How to Become the Person You Always Wanted to Be No Matter What the Obstacle

“Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.”

Thinking Ends Funny Winning Energy Cost Negative Hater Negative Energy My Haters Hater Jealousy Haters And Jealousy Jealous Hater Your Haters

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I was scared that no one would hire me. At that time, there was still a stigma attached to it. A big stigma. Actually, I think I was healthier after the operation than some people who have bypass surgery because I was completely cured. But when you mentioned "heart transplant," you got a very negative reaction. It triggered people's imaginations, and not in a good way.”

People Thinking Way Heart Stills Bigs Imagination Negative Scared Reactions Operations Surgery Good Way Stigma Bypass Transplants Heart Transplant Negative Reactions

Author:Robert Altman

“I actually think it's easier to be positive than negative, to be honest - it takes way more energy to stay mad at someone, for instance, than it does to say "i forgive you" and move on.”

Thinking Way Doe Moving Energy Honest Easier Negative Mad Forgiving Instance Being Honest Being Positive I Forgive You Mad At Someone

Author:Dave Smalley

“I never ever would have thought initially it would have been someone like Pierce playing Charles. I think he has an innate likeability to him, as soon as you meet him he's very, very charismatic. Charles, on the page, was someone who's very domineering and quite a negative character, and Pierce just by being Pierce can change the whole dynamic of it, which made for a much for interesting relationship. He's a really nice guy.”

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Author:Robert Pattinson

“I think you need to be able to see a lot of negative in things in order to extract material, so there's probably something to that. A lot of the people I used to work with were very, very, very unfunny offstage, so that's a pretty common thing.”

People Thinking Needs Able Used Order Common Materials Negative Common Things

Author:Eric Bana

“I fell in love with the pageant world. People that don't compete in pageants, I think they have a negative feeling for them, but really, they are incredible.”

People Thinking World Feelings Negative Incredibles Pageant Negative Feelings

Author:Abbey Curran

“I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and wouldn't approach things on that level. I can't really fathom it being a negative thing for aliens to visit.”

Thinking Humans I Can Would Be Fighting Levels Stupid Approach Negative Aliens Dumb Smarter Fathom

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“A bad day is just a day when you have been thinking more negative thoughts than positive ones. What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”

Thinking Has Beens Negative Bad Day Negative Thoughts

Author:Eleanor Powell

“My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Done Form Song Negative Instinct

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Don't focus on the negative things that can happen, just think about the positive things.”

Thinking Happens Focus Negative Positive Things

Author:Michelle Kwan

“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

“The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books I sell, I think. It seems to have nothing to do with what I'm writing, but what degree of success I'm perceived to have. It's really weird, especially since I spent so much of my life covering people who are famous. It's interesting to actually have it happen to me on some level.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman

“People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.”

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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

“It's been kind of extreme - people either love it or they don't like it at all - and I think that's a good thing. It's my first art project where there's not a middle ground. I find it very interesting. But the negative feedback hasn't at all kept me from doing it, obviously. Because I haven't really gotten any negative feedback that I feel is really warranted.”

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Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

“I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.”

Thinking Way Personality Negative Upbringing

Author:Ralph Nader

“I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.”

Thinking World Matter Eye Clear Seeing Negative Cynic Seeing The World Open Eyes

Author:Tom Tomorrow

“Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.”

Thinking Way Want Looks Choices Loneliness Shapes Solitude Negative Fundamentals Presses Who We Are Dimensions Alone Time

Author:Thomas L. Dumm

“I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word "confessional". I don't like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don't want to put myself so directly in the foreground.”

Thinking Want Ideas Negative Therapy Songwriting Songwriters Connotation Foreground

Author:Beth Orton

“Ego is neither positive nor negative. Those are simply concepts that create more boundaries. Ego is just ego, and the disaster of it all is that you, as a spiritual seeker, have been conditioned to think of the ego as bad, as an enemy, as something to be destroyed. This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don't go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.”

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Author:Adyashanti

“First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you have negative thoughts - they can give you a bad look, too; we reflect what we eat and think. We also taste and smell what we eat. Being happy and doing what I love really reflects.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Firsts Looks Hair Healthy Taste Negative Skins Smell Nails Negative Thoughts Taste And Smell

Author:Kate del Castillo

“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.”

“Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Has Beens Art Book Wanted Audience Mass Negative Good Art

Author:Bell Hooks

“I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.”

Thinking Kind Persons Negative Come Up Remembered Scenarios Paranoid

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.”

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Author:Vernon Howard

“Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.”

Thinking World Doe Dangerous Negative Thinker Dangerous Things Negative Thoughts Pumps Activate

Book:The Positive Principle Today

Source: The Positive Principle Today

“I think that we have to firstly accept ourselves the way we are. I do think that girls are told at an early age that straightening their hair is the right thing, whereas it's simply not. You need to shut down the negative energy and do what makes you feel good. What makes you feel good is what makes you beautiful!”

Thinking Way Needs Feels Age Beautiful Girl Energy Accepting Hair Negative Feel Good Right Thing That Girl Make You Feel Good Negative Energy

Author:Maria Borges

“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”

Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a defeatist or negative thought. Since we create through thought, we need to concentrate very strongly on positive thoughts. If you think you can't do something, you can't. But if you think you can, you may be surprised to discover that you can. It is important that our thoughts be constantly for the best that could happen in a situation - for the good things we would like to see happen.”

Ifs Thinking Needs May Important Happens Powerful Situation Negative Good Things Very Strong Positive Thoughts Our Thoughts Negative Thoughts

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. They can be a powerful influence for good when they're on the positive side, and they can and do make you physically ill when they're on the negative side. I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts! Let me tell you, junk thoughts can destroy you even more quickly than junk food. Junk thoughts are something to be wary of.”

Ifs Thinking Sides Powerful Influence Negative Let Me Ill Junk Negative Thoughts Junk Food

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Winning Negative Loser Positively Think Positively

Author:Tony La Russa

“I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways, I think it's really positive, and in ways, I think it's really negative.”

Thinking Way Ideas Technology Negative Complexes Communicate Complicated Prominent Really Positive

Author:Jane Levy

“It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.”

People Thinking Giving Self Film Passion Gains Negative Obsession Thinking About You Negative Experiences

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.”

People Thinking Able Artist Focus Negative Followers Thank God Negative People

Author:Nicki Minaj

“Disaster is around the corner. It is, it's lurking, it's incredibly negative. Am I thinking about the bad times ahead? Jesus, no. I've got to remain positive, I'm going to fight this negativity!”

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Author:Martin O'Neill

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