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I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking. -- David Bowie
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. -- Zig Ziglar
Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity. -- Kristin Armstrong
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking. -- Julian Baggini
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again. -- David D. Burns
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way. -- Vince Cable
Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Negative thinking blows everything out of proportion. -- John C. Maxwell
I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking. -- Gertrude Berg
For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction... -- Peter McWilliams
Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish. -- John C. Maxwell
Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking. -- Seth Godin
Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury. -- Peter McWilliams
Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar. -- Lauren Mackler
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people. -- Colin Powell
There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering. -- Peter McWilliams
There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?" -- Tony Buzan
For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings. -- Peter McWilliams
I suppose it goes without saying that negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak--or at least think--critically of ourselves, and before long that is how we see everyone and everything. No sunshine, no roses, no promise of hope or happiness. Before long we and everybody around us are miserable. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
All stress begins with a negative thought. One thought that went unchecked, and then more thoughts came and more, until stress manifested. The effect is stress, but the cause was negative thinking, and it all began with one little negative thought. No matter what you might have manifested, you can change it ....with one small positive thought and then another. -- Rhonda Byrne
I am a firm believer in 'negative thinking' when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are - but he doesn't think continuously about the bunker - where he doesn't want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he DWELLS upon the green. -- Maxwell Maltz
We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live. -- Mitchell Baker
I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality. -- Srikumar Rao
Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion. -- Robert H. Schuller
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it. -- Vernon Howard
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. -- Douglas Coupland
Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you. -- John C. Maxwell
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology. -- Harold Bloom
I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I'm not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I've had to re-examine my thinking. -- Ziad Doueiri
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 felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity. -- Rebecca Stead
With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance. -- Pitbull
There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative. -- Walter Dean Myers
My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.' -- Bobby Knight
Negative thinking keeps us from enjoying life. -- John C. Maxwell
Negative thinking limits God and our potential. -- John C. Maxwell
Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times. -- John C. Maxwell
Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking. -- John C. Maxwell
Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response. -- John C. Maxwell
Few things are more negative than thinking positive for no reason. -- Dov Davidoff
You can't live A POSITIVE LIFE thinking negative thoughts. Dwell on the POSITIVE. -- Joel Osteen
Positive thinking is better than negative thinking andNo thinking is far better then positive thinking -- Ed Strachar
Positive thinking is better than negative thinking and... No thinking is far better then positive thinking -- Ed Strachar
Life is all about exploring yourself, discovering yourself and grooming yourself, then you will surely stop negative thinking. -- Ehabib
If you're not thinking about a negative thought, your vibration is going to raise to its natural positive place. -- Esther Hicks
It wasn't so much that I was positive. I just wasn't fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore. -- Sarah Dessen
Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem. -- Rick Warren
It was thinking negative thoughts or thinking positive thoughts, leaving the house prepared or leaving the house unprepared that made the difference. -- Jack Canfield
Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you. -- Jon Gordon
Negative thinking will always lead to failure and nervous prostration; but positive faith- positive thinking -will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living. -- Albert E Cliffe
If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG! -- Benjamin Carson
Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent. -- Louise Hay
Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford. -- Yoko Ono
The only thing that can possibly keep you from going after your dreams is the person standing in your shoes, wearing your clothes, and thinking your negative thoughts. -- Les Brown
You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right! -- Joyce Meyer
Sometimes I take a temperature of things just because everyone else does. Especially when I'm doing a play. I want to know what people are thinking, positive or negative. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing those with very bright images. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Without question, positive thinking will do more for you, will make you feel better, do better, let you have more fun, and be liked by more people than negative thinking ever will. -- John Patrick Hickey

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