Negative Feedback Loop Quotes

Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

Perpetuating success or sliding into decline is the result of many intersecting forces that reinforce one another directly and indirectly. They are both cause and effect of winning or losing. Winning generates positive forces, losing generates negative forces.

I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

A winning team feels good and keeps winning. A team that hasn't won in a while gets demotivated and keeps losing.

If you bring in testosterone outside your body, it probably stops producing it because it thinks you're going to get it from the outside.

The harder we played, the behinder we got.

Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

If a hungry lion suddenly appeared, you'd be terrified. So terrified you'd probably run away. Great, fear's doing its job. But you might get so afraid that you lock up and can't move. This would be very bad. Guilt's the same. It can prevent you from fixing the situation, make you feel so bad you can't function at 100% and even lead to more guilt-provoking bad behavior.

Mistrust and conflict form a self-reinforcing cycle in which the mistrust causes conflict that reinforces the mistrust

Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further. The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold.