#negative

Positivity can be a negative," I tell her, "if it's used to diminish events that should be cause for concern. Saying 'bad things happen to good people' or "God doesn't give anyone more than they can handle', for instance, isn't necessarily helpful to the person to whom something bad happened--it is much more beneficial to those who wish to be dismissive- who don't really care to think about the why or how or who. And if we cease to see the real human part in events--if instead, we relegate human experiences to some sort of mystical concept like karma, destiny or everything happens for a reason, and consider more realistic views to be negative--then we diminish compassion and empathy, as well as the possibility of positive change. ↗

— Jane Devin

#compassion #empathy #negative #positive #realistic

I was receiving at least ninety-nine incredible, positive, and life-changing responses for every negative or abusive one, yet I couldn’t stop looking at the one percent. I couldn’t get them out of my mind. I let them kill my excitement. I let them destroy my love for what I was doing. I let them shut me down. I let them bully me into changing the way I did things around here. I almost stopped. I almost gave up. I almost quit writing. But every time, I remembered my dad. He taught me better than that. And I forced myself to be excited again. I forced myself to see the goal and vision of why I was excited in the first place. I forced myself to start skipping over the negative replies and start diving into the loving ones. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#negativity #peer-pressure #public-figures #public-opinion #respond

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives. ↗

— Heather O'Reilly

#day #down #every #every day #great

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#always #feel #i #i always #i can

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work. ↗

— Anne Northup

#because #negative #people #reason #run

Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me? ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#day #go #i #me #negative

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#enormous #i #i think #live #negative

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#film #get #i #in fact #look

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#ammunition #constructive #frequently #gives #i

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. ↗

— Christina Romer

#highly #impact #increases #large #negative