Negative Quotes

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My prayer today is to not be negative about anything for one day. It is so easy to be disappointed, critical, cynical. Nothing is easier… — Caroline Myss
Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates… — Oliver Burkeman
The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative… — Oliver Burkeman
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words… — Oliver Burkeman
One positive step can put an end to negative momentum. Now is when you can take it. — Ralph Marston
The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless,… — Sonja Lyubomirsky
Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly. — Harold Stephen Black
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine. — Ben Goldacre
The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative. — Nancy Etcoff
Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This… — David Brooks
I think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a matter of your attitude. Some people have a negative attitude, and… — Marla Runyan
Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred… — Ed Seykota
Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and… — Shawn Achor
Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were… — Ingvar Kamprad
We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to… — Douglas Crockford
Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite races â€” red,… — Robert Thurman
The power is neutral. It cannot be divided into positive and negative energies. Power is power. — Scott Cunningham
But I have learned over the years that all I can do is reach for something difficult - try to get the colors right and… — Molly Gloss
The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation… — Gary North
Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others donâ€™t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology… — Peter J. Carroll

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