Negative Quotes
2291 Negative quotes by unique 1417 authors
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The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I…
— Van Day Truex
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Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.
— Neal Stephenson
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My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of…
— Chris Hadfield
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If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.
— Emmet Fox
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Be happy. It really annoys negative people.
— Ricky Gervais
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There isn't a single one of us who hasn't harvested either the positive or negative effects of a simple choice of behavior.
— Paul McCabe
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If only we would learn every day of our lives to overcome those things in our character which are negative, to let go and let…
— Albert E Cliffe
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Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see…
— Francis Crick
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright…
— Seneca the Younger
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Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.
— Rick Warren
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Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?
— Neil Young
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The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
— Diogenes
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In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
— Amelia Barr
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
— Edward de Bono
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When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.
— Walt Kelly
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...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.
— Sam Walton
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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. So if, from perhaps some unhealthy desire for sympathetic support,…
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
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"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make…
— Alexandra David-Neel
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Every positive thing in your life represents a single unique blessing. Every negative thing in your life has the opportunity to become a double blessing.…
— Ralph Marston
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Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.
— Gail Godwin
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