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“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

“Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.”

Knows Made I Can Feelings Reality Remember Song Sound Audience Records Fans Judging Perception Negative Clubs Reviews Scream New Songs

Author:Chris Cornell

“Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.”

Want Doe Enemy Support Atheism Anxiety Perception Negative Aspect Guilt Oneself Positive Atheism Acknowledge Characteristics Recalls Stereotype Paranoia Selective

Author:Sam Keen

“Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.”

People Facts Reality Certain Language Behinds Conditions Politician Perception Negative Meaningless Elites Obscure Precise Associates

Author:Ron Paul

“My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.”

Use Perception Negative Legs Disability Handicaps

Author:Rick Hansen

“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 thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated, polarizing person. I feel like I write about things that I'm interested in, and I describe why they're interesting to me. I could be negative, I guess. It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good.”

People Feels Writing Persons Interesting Terrible Easier Perception Negative Controversial Opinionated Baffled Polarizing

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.”

Cities Perception Negative Weird Things

Author:Matthew Specktor

“See the other person's potential for kindness and bolster your own expression of kindness. If you see them in a negative way, the power of your perception will only help to keep them that way as you polarize yourself from them, assuming a superior role, seeing yourself as the good guy and them as the bad guy.”

Ifs Way Persons Helping Guy Roles Kindness Seeing Expression Perception Negative Assuming Superiors Bad Guys Good Guy Seeing Yourself

Author:Sharon Gannon

“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

“Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we call forth more positive. Having loved and lost, I now love more passionately. Having won and lost, I now win more soberly. Having tasted the bitter, I now savor the sweet.”

Love Winning Lost Attitude Focus Sweet Perception Negative Bounds Bitter Loved And Lost

Book:Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”

Source: Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook

“Truth is never negative. Only one's perception of it is.”

Truth Truth Is Perception Negative

Author:Joseph Curiale

“Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.”

Consciousness Perception Negative Triumph Postmodernism Constructivism

Book:Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory

Source: Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory