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"Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully."
"Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code."
"If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking. It's just like with a computer; if you change the input, you will change the output."
"To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility."
"I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful."
"No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want."
"I never thought a role model should be negative."
"I don't have time to be negative."
"Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence."
"Consumption may be regarded as negative production."
"Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms."
"I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life."
"Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure."
"If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you."
"I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost always with a negative undercurrent that makes me furious."
"If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others."
"Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes."
"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
"I had an IQ test. The results came back negative."
"When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive."
