Negative Focus Quotes

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

I felt ugly, chubby, and stupid until I talked to my mom about it and she had me do a very good exercise that I recommend to every girl. She had me take a piece of paper and write down everything I liked and everything that I didn't like about my body and my life. By the end of the exercise, I realized that I had so many more things in my likes column. It showed me that while there are a few things in my dislikes column, I was giving ALL my attention to those few things!

Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.

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.

Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'

We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus

Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

If you focus on the negative side, it just brings your confidence down.

So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

The more we dwell on what we don't want, the more we get it.

You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult

You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world's negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.

In international trade it’s always the 5 percent of that which works less well that gets most of the attention compared to the 95 percent that is functioning well.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that.

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.

If you spend most of your effort preventing bad things from happening you will also prevent many good things from happening.