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"My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere."
"Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt."
"Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults."
"So my concern is that - what the campaign has to do is to pull those folks [negative to Donald Trump] out and make sure that they actually get to the ballot."
"Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of."
"Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative."
"I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!"
"The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course."
"It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world."
"The past has no power over us. It doesn't matter how long we have had a negative pattern. The point of power is in the present moment. What a wonderful thing to realize! We can begin to be free in this moment!"
"To create a wonderful day sometimes takes just a slight change in the way you look at it. Be willing to let go of an old, negative way that you look at something, and look at it in a new, positive way."
