Negative thoughts were treated by Cherokee healers with the same medicines as wounds, headaches, or physical illness. It was believed that unchecked negative thoughts can permeate the being and manifest themselves in negative actions.
Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.
We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think about being different from them, about being Tibetan, Buddhist or even the Dalai Lama. I only think about being a human being. We all share the potential for positive and negative emotions, yet one of our special qualities is our human mind, our intelligence. If we use it well we'll be successful and happy.
Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.
Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance.
You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.
Of course, with showbiz there's a lot of negative things, along with the positive, and it's just what you choose to focus on. And I choose to focus on the positive.
Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
One positive step can put an end to negative momentum. Now is when you can take it.
Incidentally, the very, very first review that James Lavelle and I saw of Endtroducing was very negative! It was in The Wire, and the context of the review was that, you know, Mo'Wax was so far behind Ninja Tune. Heheheh. And people wonder why there was this sense of a feud between labels! We just kind of looked at each other and we were like, 'Oh, well, let the floodgates open!' But, not to be facile, that was literally the last bad review I ever saw for that album.
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?
Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.
Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say
I have been doing this for eight years now so the negative things do not effect me as much as they did at the beginning.
Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in a negative way, you've got to check yourself sometimes and say, "Maybe I don't like the way that this thing is said, but it's expanding tolerance. " If I said something that was shutting down something that was positive, call me out, but I don't really see me doing that.
But with a rate of return of 1. 6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.
There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively.
The negative has to be done on an A and B [roll] so you don't see the cuts, the splices on the frameline.