Negative Quotes

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

Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out.

I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!

When you choose positive thoughts over negative ones, you are more likely to develop an optimistic outlook on life.

If there's a negative interaction between my child and another child, what I want to know is, how was it handled, what lessons came out of it and of course, is my child okay?

I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.

The wisest minds are those who refuse all the negative inevitabilities!

I would rather have people be even cynical about me than to feed the negative vibe.

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

One of the best questions you can ask when something negative happens is this: 'What does this experience make possible?'

You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.

Instead of running from the negative, I've started running towards the positive.

I was aware of my race from a very young age. Not in a negative way. Coming from an interracial background, I think it is important to understand who you are.

It's much easier to say negative things in a review.

If you happen to be the only one with negative interest rates, you also weaken your currency, which means you make your exports more competitive.

When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.

I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

I do believe that children are all blessings from god. And I feel it's all positive, it's positive experience. You know, I don't like to dwell on any of the negative. And - a lot of people do.

My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can't hide the marks It's not a negative thing.

Karen Handel has run a 100 percent negative campaign.

I love when a TV show, or entertainment in general, makes me feel something; be it positive, be it negative, be it happiness, be it awkward, uncomfortable if it can make me feel, it's done it's job.

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.

Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?

Reminding myself of all that I have to be thankful for really helps ground me and keeps me from tipping over into that negative place.

I never approach a character from a negative place.

You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

It's sad to see that something you have done or the decisions that you have made affect your children in a negative way.

I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.

There isn't a single one of us who hasn't harvested either the positive or negative effects of a simple choice of behavior.

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

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

If you have a negative thought about a world situation, dwell upon the best that could happen in that situation.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

I think the better the show usually it means that you've got a lot of good people, because it's sustaining itself. If there's negative energy, things tend to break down ultimately.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative.

It takes a lot of people years to turn a negative into a positive. It takes me, like, an album.

What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be - in heaven or in hell.

There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle of meditation.

Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.