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“I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.”

People Thinking Way Want Ends Feelings Powerful Emotional Married Negative Uncertainty

Author:Alain de Botton

“I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.”

Thinking Wells Negative Negative Thinking Thinking Negative

Author:David Bowie

“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”

Thinking Way Mind Ends Training Negative Stress Extremes Spectrum Unconsciousness Under Stress

Book:DUNE

Source: DUNE

“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

“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

“Because people are ever willing to believe the negative over the positive. It’s easier for you to think me corrupt and evil than it is for you to see me for what I really am. No one wants to believe that some people are willing to help others out of the goodness of their hearts because they can’t stand to see someone suffer. So few people are altruistic that they can’t understand or conceive that anyone else in the world could ever put someone else’s good above their own. (Leta)”

People Thinking World Want Believe Heart Helping Suffering Evil Willing Easier Goodness Negative Helping Others

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you." “Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I had! Fireballs, laser beams, vacuum cleaner a block high...” “Negative attachments, Richard. If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Stills Bigs Negative Clouds Productions Block Relax Remove Attachment Vacuums Beam Cleaners Lasers

Book:Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.”

Thinking Looks Littles Matter Reason Enough Might Strong Sweet Needed Balance Negative No Matter What Commit Admire Cute Worthwhile Timing Helpless Adopted Strong Enough Bad Timing

Author:Gwen Cooper

“Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.”

Thinking Wells Might Negative Ultimate Boat Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

Author:Tom Stoppard

“I suppose it goes without saying that negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak--or at least think--critically of ourselves, and before long that is how we see everyone and everything. No sunshine, no roses, no promise of hope or happiness. Before long we and everybody around us are miserable.”

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Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.”

Ifs Thinking Needs I Can Helping My Own Picks My Friends Negative Insecurity Family And Friends Plague Session Pick Me Pick Me Up Qualifying

Author:Jenson Button

“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 wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.”

Thinking Way Negative Way Of Thinking

Book:Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive.”

Thinking Self Feelings Seems Care Hurt Negative Selfish Destructive I Care Self Centered Always Wrong

Book:Jay's Journal

Source: Jay's Journal

“I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word "diva" and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn't afraid to show it.”

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Author:Nick Cannon

“I was reading that lightning is a negative charge that comes from the friction that clouds carry. And since opposites attract, I would like to think that he was so positive the moment that he died, so happy, he pulled that bolt right out of the sky. I don’t know if that’s possible, but that’s what I believe.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Moments Reading I Believe Sky Negative Opposites Died Clouds Lightning Bolts Friction Opposites Attract

Author:Chris Colfer

“But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves - rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children.”

Ifs Thinking Men Feels Children Hard Mother Bits Sound Loss Decision Boys Dangerous Negative Selfish Narrative Atmosphere Teenage Halt Lone Inference Lone Wolf Hard Decision

Author:Caitlin Moran

“I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Guy Certain Given I Believe Deals Hell Fans Negative Response I Believe In Realms Bad Guys Good Guy Go To Hell

Author:John Cena

“There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.”

“Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.”

“For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Wisdom Body Bigs Suffering Three Waiting Emotion Wise Habit Disease Negative Wings Addiction Negative Thinking

Author:Peter McWilliams

“Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.”

Thinking Has Beens Motivational Sports Inspiring Negative Athlete Motivational Sports Traits Inspirational Sports Stubbornness

Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.”

Thinking Motivational Positive Thinking Negative Negativity Dwelling Juju

Book:Out on a Limb

Source: Out on a Limb

“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

“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

“Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Motivational Success Impossible Succeed Negative Tools Cease Pessimism

Author:Bruce Lee

“Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.”

People Thinking Mind Spiritual Used Energy Causes Serious Percent Negative Tools Tasks Instruments Lays Being True Useless Repetitive Leakage

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves, especially when they allow themselves to be influenced by negative people. That's what gives rise to dictators. Avoid that at all costs. Stop it first on a personal level, and you will have contributed to world sanity as well as your own.”

People Thinking World Giving Firsts Wells Levels Happened Worst Cost Negative Sanity Dictator Worst Things Negative People

Author:Donald Trump

“Negative thoughts are not protecting you. They are making you smaller.”

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Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.”

Thinking Happens Choices Can Do Attitude Basketball Negative Scared Famous Basketball Negative Attitude

Book:Reach for the Summit

Source: Reach for the Summit

“One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life.”

“First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving.”

Thinking Should Mind Firsts Action Next Existence Knowing Meditation Negative Bliss Sheer

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“I am absolutely against positive thinking. You will be surprised that if you don't choose, if you remain in a choiceless awareness, your life will start expressing something which is beyond both positive and negative, which is higher than both. So you are not going to be a loser. It is not going to be negative, it is not going to be positive, it is going to be existential.”

Ifs Thinking Awareness Positive Thinking Higher Negative Loser Existential Being Positive

Author:Rajneesh

“The technique of positive thinking is not a technique that transforms you. It is simply repressing the negative aspects of your personality. It is a method of choice. It cannot help awareness; it goes against awareness. Awareness is always choiceless.”

Thinking Helping Choices Awareness Positive Thinking Personality Negative Aspect Method Technique

Author:Rajneesh

“Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.”

Thinking Years Women Results Millions Negative Intuition Sarcastic

Author:Rupert Hughes

“You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!”

Thinking Knows Looks Kind Persons Attitude Negative Witty Being Positive

Author:Joyce Meyer

“You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative.”

Thinking Made Important Today Pay Attention Mistake Negative Yesterday Pay Attention Made A Mistake I Made A Mistake

Author:Jerry Rubin

“Never think of the consequences of failing for you will always think of a negative result. Think only positive thoughts and your mind will gravitate towards those thoughts!”

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Author:Michael Jordan

“Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.”

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Author:Deacon Jones

“I go through fan mail myself, but I think I might get them censored, because I'm always expecting to get the one thing that says, 'I know where you live and I'm going to kill you!' I'm always expecting that to come, but it never seems to arrive. I never get any negative mail, so someone must be censoring them.”

Thinking Knows Seems Might One Thing Fans Fame Negative Mail Expecting Where You Live Censored Censoring Fan Mail

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I don't think this debate is negative, it is enriching”

Thinking Negative Debate Enriching

Author:Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

“I think people who make checklists are the most miserable and alone because they are looking for the perfect Entenmann's that is delicious and has no calories. Please, you want a brunette with a sense of humor, a doctorate and HIV-negative status? Good luck, honey. Love isn't so frequent that you can put conditions on it.”

People Thinking Want Perfect Love Is Conditions Please Negative Luck Miserable Sense Of Humor Honey Delicious Good Luck Hiv Calories Brunette Checklists Doctorates

Author:Paul Rudnick

“Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Problem Energy Leadership Decision Negative Caves Degenerates Negative Thinking Hard Decision

Author:John C. Maxwell

“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”

Thinking Depression Achievement Negative Illness Mental Illness

Book:You are Not a Stranger Here

Source: You are Not a Stranger Here

“You see, I think negative emotions are always trumped by positive emotions.”

Thinking Emotion Negative Negative Emotions Positive Emotions

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Trying Emotional Negative Reactions Confused Irrational Diminish Think Of Me Unsafe Negative Reactions

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I try not to think about negative thoughts and possibilities and disaster and things like that.”

Thinking Trying Possibility Negative Disaster Negative Thoughts

Author:Rory Cochrane

“Never think of revising as fixing something that is wrong. That starts you off in a negative frame of mind. Rather think of it as an opportunity to improve something you already love.”

Thinking Mind Opportunity Negative Fixing Frame Of Mind Revising

Book:Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors

Source: Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors

“People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!”

People Thinking Character Negative Expected Remembered

Author:Mark Hamill

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