#negative

I adore John Mayer. I don't see how anything that surrounds John could be negative. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#anything #could #how #i #john

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums. ↗

— Ricky Skaggs

#hate #i #matter #million #more

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#concentrating #generation #ignoring #immense #negative

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

#better ways #billion #control #cycles #demand

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#educating #hiv #immediate #investment #involved

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#crash #define #flight #food #get

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work. ↗

— Diane Lane

#because #become #becomes #capacities #directors

One noteworthy study suggests that people who suppress negative emotions tend to leak those emotions later in unexpected ways. The psychologist Judith Grob asked people to hide their emotions when she showed them disgusting images. She even had them hold pens in their mouths to prevent them from frowning. She found that this group reported feeling less disgusted by the pictures than did those who'd been allowed to react naturally. Later, however, the people who hid their emotions suffered side effects. Their memory was impaired, and the negative emotions they'd suppressed seemed to color their outlook. When Grob had them fill in the missing letter to the word "gr_ss", for example, they were more likely than others to offer "gross" rather than "grass". "People who tend to [suppress their negative emotions] regularly," concludes Grob, "might start to see their world in a more negative light." p. 223 ↗

— Susan Cain

#perception #nature

Nobody really enjoys having to pacify their feelings. It's too much like failure; it reminds you of weakness. but feelings don't want to be pacified, either. They want to be fulfilled. You fulfill your positive feelings (love, hope, optimism, appreciation, approval) by connecting with other people, expressing your best self. You fulfill your negative feelings by releasing them. Your whole system recognizes negative feelings as toxic. It's futile to bottle them up, divert them, ignore them, or try to rise above them. Either negativity is leaving or it's hanging on - it has no other alternative. As you fulfill emotions, your brain will change and form new patterns, which is the whole goal. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#change #negative-feelings #positive-feelings #change

Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#been #confirmed #conservation #elementary #energy