Negative Quotes - Page 9

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought

I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost always with a negative undercurrent that makes me furious.

If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.

A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life easily becomes neutral and futile.

It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.

Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

Nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.

Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.

A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.

I had an IQ test. The results came back negative.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.

Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.

It is said if an organization listens to the complaint of a customer and the problem is fixed, the customer remains a loyal customer and tells approximately seven others about the experience. Conversely, if a person is ignored and the problem not fixed, that customer will not deal with that organization anymore and will tell approximately twenty other people about the negative experience.

Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive.

When there's so many haters and negative things, I really don't care.

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

I'm against cronyism, and I had to learn that early on. Like, I don't have an entourage, because I saw the negative effects of those things.