Gail Simone Quotes

People are great. But there's people who you get together with and you talk and you go away feeling energized, you feel inspired. And then there's people who you talk with and you go away feeling horrible, feeling drained, feeling like you're incapable of doing anything. Those people are psychic vampires and I now stay away from them.

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

Don't let those people steal your day

I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here

Be careful with whom you associate. Loser's rub off!

You can find negative people everywhere you go. The last thing in the world you want to do is talk to them, because all they're gonna do is cement pessimism in you!

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it.

One foole makes a hundred.

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?

... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.

We should not let negative influences get to us.

Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years.

Don’t waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible.

People let their frustrations out on me. I love Kanye West. They say the opposite of that. But I'm not going to say that. I'm only going to say what I'm want to put into the universe.

If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.

Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

If you're hanging out with two negative people, do they equal one positive person?

There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment.

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.