Negative

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

I love going on IMDb message boards, and there are some hilarious things that go on there - the most negative people on the planet.

A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.

Don't focus on negative things, focus on the positive, and you will flourish.

I like to accept it all, the negative and the positive.

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scottish gallows humour, our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing.

A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

I'm not a negative person, but every role I go for I don't think I'll get.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

I don't like freeloaders, I don't like people who are negative.

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative.

There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.

In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practically always very nearly atmospheric, and must be so, because the integuments give way very easily to any excess of pressure, whether positive or negative.

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

It sounds so negative of me to say, but I don't feel like there were many coming-of-age films when I was growing up. I think that when I was a teenager, I felt really misrepresented in the teenage roles that I was watching onscreen. Especially in women.

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.

No one will lend at a negative interest rate, potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, which pays zero nominal interest.

I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

Some people just decide they won't vote for you, but it doesn't have to be all negative.

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

People just wanna talk. They wanna create negative things about you and your life and make up things. You can't let them affect you!

There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.

You speak to the press at the Tour every day, but most often in a negative sense. Ninety per cent of the questions you are asked in the post-race press conferences are challenging or provocative, so you have to justify yourself, you have to try to give the right answers about every topic across the board.

In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force, they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity.

I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

Even the news, to me, or newspapers, I have a hard time getting into it because it all sucks you into this negative, bad, there-is-no-hope side of it.

I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

Exploring Castro's pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don't have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.

I don't have regrets because they are negative.

I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

If I had my way, I wouldn't do annual reviews, if I felt that everybody would be more honest about positive and negative feedback along the way. I think the annual review process is so antiquated.

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.

The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.

To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine, but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

Being cynical isn't necessarily being negative or bitter. It's a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it's not and getting their heart broken.

People are negative no matter what you do.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

The media loves negative spin.

I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.

Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.

I don't think people in Hawaii like negative ads, whether it's done by an independent group or whether it's done by the campaign itself.

I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport, and hated a lot of things. I eventually grew out of my negativity when I matured.

The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can't villainize the character you're playing. Whether it's a fictional character or a real character. Because then you operate from that sort of negative point of view, and you can't humanize him.

Anytime you present a message that is seen as hate, you're going to have a negative impact.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down, you're going to have negative results.

I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative.

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.

When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.

Like many Americans, I've always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn't always agree with him - enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000, when Al Gore was his designated successor, but I don't have anything negative I would say about Bill Clinton.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Delete the negative, accentuate the positive!

I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.

Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

No, I try not to be a negative thinker.

I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

God never ends anything on a negative, God always ends on a positive.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs, once acquired it can imprison us.

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.

I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I went to New York to focus on modeling, and then of course found that New York was not any different from Los Angeles.

People want to say something negative before they say something good.

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

So many people accept the negative. They are constantly blinded by that negative thing.

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.

It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones.

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.

I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don't feel that way. I feel like it's another medium to reach a broader audience.

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

Negative and pessimistic views of technology have always existed. I can just imagine some pessimistic Sumerian in 3500 B.C. screaming about the evils of the wheel.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don't pay attention to the negative.

Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.

What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

I'm blessed, and people's responses to me have never been negative.

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.

I'm not a negative person.

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

Women need to attack those negative voices they have in their head.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I've been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone wants me to say something controversial, but I have no negative feelings toward anything, really.

If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

'Saw' was good and bad. It was good in that it gave me a career start, but it was also negative in that it really marginalized me as a filmmaker.

It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.

I can do most anything and not have a problem with it. The only time I have negative attention is when I run naked through the streets brandishing a handgun.

I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.

The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

Specifically, in Canada, the First Nations are often overlooked in pop culture or in general, and when things are reported about our First Nations, it's often negative things - about the hardships they face and what-not.

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

'Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

I think by paying attention to the feedback that you get on Yelp, you can very quickly integrate it into your business... The really savvy folks out there, they don't necessarily take anything negative personally, but use it as constructive feedback and adjust their business.

Sad to say, negative advertising really works.

We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

I used to be tense or nervous before heats. But I've learned to get rid of the negative stuff and just stay relaxed and positive - and it seems to be working for me.

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

Normally you hear about Southeast London, and you hear about all the stuff that goes on down there, all the negative things, and the tabloids kind of stay away from all the positive things that happen that I see every day, which kind of outshines the negative.

In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.

But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.

I do my job in Type O Negative.

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.

If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I'd go crazy with people that are saying negative things.

For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

When people see a negative thing about me on a magazine, they're gonna buy it. Every time some site writes something bad, all my followers go on there, and it brings them more traffic.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

Negative politics have always been around.

Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart.

People spend money on negative campaigning because it works.

Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, 'You know that point they made... they were dead on.'

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.