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In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
Pat Summitt
In the lack of response, people will extrapolate an unfavorable concept. They will presume you have no concern for them or harbor antipathy towards them.
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Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.
Joyce Meyer
'A pessimistic attitude will only add to the struggles of a long and arduous road. You may be handed thorns, but you don't have to embrace them.'
3.
If you think of something negative and you keep it in your head, you are going to actually live that. Now, if you think of something great and positive and joyful, you're going to actually live that. You've got to be careful what you put in your head. Basically, I'll call that: "Don't ever play yourself."
DJ Khaled
4.
Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult
TobyMac
Dwelling on the unfavorable only exacerbates an arduous voyage.
5.
Damn right I like the life I live,
Cause I went from negative to positive.
The Notorious B.I.G.
'Verily, I relish the life I inhabit,
For I have gone from disadvantage to benefit.'
6.
Block out all the negative energy, and just love.
Ariana Grande
Ignore the pessimism and focus on affection.
7.
The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer
Varg Vikernes
The only downside to homicide is that after you eliminate someone, they can no longer experience distress.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions
Norman Vincent Peale
A confident individual does not deny the existence of misfortune; they shun it. Confidence is a mindset which consistently searches for the best possible outcome from even the most challenging circumstances.
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The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.
Joel Osteen
The more you expound upon unfavorable elements in your life, the more you summon them. Utter success not failure.
10.
A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.
Napoleon Hill
A constructive attitude discovers an achievable solution; a pessimistic outlook searches for all the impediments.
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What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue.
Prince
People must understand that if they trust in the divine and have faith, then they should abstain from speaking pessimistically or falsely.
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I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.
Chester Bennington
I have been able to channel my struggles by numbing myself to the agony and expressing it through my music.
13.
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.
Laozi
Disregard the detrimental influences to erase them.
14.
Even at your best, someone will have something negative to say. Pursue Greatness anyways!
Tony Gaskins
'No matter how excellent your efforts may be, there will always be a critic; stay focused on greatness!'
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Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions
A. R. Rahman
Music transports you to a realm of serenity, free from animosity and envy.
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Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.
Jon Gordon
17.
All feelings derive and become alive, whether negative or positive, from the power of Thought
Sydney Banks
18.
Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.
Gangaji
19.
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre Lakatos
20.
When a big change occurs in your life it forces you to change direction. Sometimes the new path may not be easy, but you can be absolutely certain that there is magnificence for you on the new path. You can be absolutely certain that the new path contains things that you could not have experienced otherwise.
When we look back at a negative event that occurred in the past, we often see how in fact it transformed our life. We see how that event directed us toward a life that we would not change for anything.
Rhonda Byrne
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We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative
Herb Kohl
22.
Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!
Tyra Banks
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Fear is a negative thought in your mind. Supplant it with a constructive thought. Fear has killed millions. Confidence is greater than fear. Nothing is more powerful than faith in God and the good.
Joseph Murphy
24.
Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.
Joel Osteen
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The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror. But I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage. Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.
Ingmar Bergman
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Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.
Donnie Yen
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The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.
Bill Walsh
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Sometimes, people say certain things about me that are negative, but that's no problem. I try to take their negative and turn it to a positive. That's why I like to surround myself with positive people.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
Napoleon Hill
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Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.
A. A. Gill
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It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally speaking it may be said that the least sensitive bacteria are the Gram-negative bacilli, and the most susceptible are the pyogenic cocci ... In addition to its possible use in the treatment of bacterial infections penicillin is certainly useful... for its power of inhibiting unwanted microbes in bacterial cultures so that penicillin insensitive bacteria can readily be isolated.
Alexander Fleming
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The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.
Ken Wilber
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As the cathode rays carry a charge of negative electricity, are deflected by an electrostatic force as if they were negatively electrified, and are acted on by a magnetic force in just the way in which this force would act on a negatively electrified body moving along the path of these rays, I can see no escape from the conclusion that they are charges of negative electricity carried by particles of matter.
Joseph John Thomson
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
Norman Vincent Peale
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No matter how much good things are going on around you, you still have them little negative things that just wanna come out in front. But you bottle them in because you have so many other great things, but they still there.
Kendrick Lamar
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
T. S. Eliot
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Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?
Donald Sutherland
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I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.
Deepika Padukone
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There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
Albert Bandura
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Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
Busta Rhymes
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The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.
P.D. Ouspensky
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Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead of realizing their true potential. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being."
Daniel J. Siegel
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It’s difficult to find a person who can accept the truth consistently and more when it is related to him only and that’s what keeps the difference between the real talk and the negative talk very marginal.
Anuj
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Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
John Lydon
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Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.
Thomas Sowell
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I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
Walter Payton
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Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.
Terence Tao
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Quit dwelling on the negative things people have said about you. You don’t have to have everyone’s approval. You have God’s approval.
Joel Osteen
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Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.
Curtis Jackson
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If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.
Sister Souljah