Negative Quotes

You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.

~ Daniel Kahneman

My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

~ Katee Sackhoff

I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.

~ Ansel Elgort

Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.

~ Edmund White

When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?

~ Deborah Tannen

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important.

~ Nick Saban

I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.

~ Karen Salmansohn

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.

~ Mother Angelica

'MMMbop' ultimately is about trying to see the positive in the negative, trying to see the positive relationships you'll have the in the face of challenge and strife.

~ Isaac Hanson

I like to accept it all, the negative and the positive.

~ Alek Wek

Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.

~ Sam Kean

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

~ Noel Gallagher

I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.

~ Natalie Massenet

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

~ Betty White

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.

~ Carlos Ghosn

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

~ Daniel Goleman

If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side - the 'positive thinking' side.

~ Srikumar Rao

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

~ Anthony Horowitz

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

~ Johannes Stark

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

~ John Newcombe

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

~ Imre Lakatos

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

~ Dalai Lama

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

~ Jean Baudrillard

My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made sure that the comedy came first. So we weren't a bunch of Arabs trying to be funny. We were a bunch of comedians who just happened to be of Arab heritage.

~ Maysoon Zayid

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

~ Bell Hooks

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

~ Jennifer Beals

Sad to say, negative advertising really works.

~ Jerry Della Femina

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

~ Abbe Pierre

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

~ David Suzuki

Negative and pessimistic views of technology have always existed. I can just imagine some pessimistic Sumerian in 3500 B.C. screaming about the evils of the wheel.

~ Gray Scott

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

~ Tom Hiddleston

Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.

~ Pamela Meyer

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

~ Dalai Lama

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

~ Lisa Marie Presley

My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.

~ Josh Silver

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

~ Mike Tyson

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

~ David Suzuki

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

~ John Kasich

Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.

~ Richard Dreyfuss

If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our community while protecting our environment.

~ Tony Cardenas