Negative Quotes - Page 22

Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response.

Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.

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

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.

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.

People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary.

Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.

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.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

I'm not a negative person.

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity.

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.

The word diva has a negative connotation.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

I like when somebody says something negative about me because I can put it back in their face

Every single day in a marriage, we influence each other. It is a matter of am I going to have a positive influence or a negative influence?

Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right.

When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.

Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an expressive audience.

When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.