Bobby Ray Inman Quotes

I always focus on the negatives.

Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

I'll always have to force myself to see the positive, because I'm wired badly, I'd say. I'm just naturally a bit under, a bit depressed.

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments... Always on to the next and never in the moment.

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

People have good and bad days.

I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

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.

How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

I wake up, and I'll just start reading and trying to brace myself for the rest of the day, and all the while I'm doing that, I'm kicking myself mentally.

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.