Negative Quotes

I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the U.S. as a geopolitical player.

People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

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.

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

2012 was the year I saw Twitter as a negative. More people need to realise that not everything they read is true and that Internet trolls are a real problem.

I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.

I never thought a role model should be negative.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

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

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

If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.

I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

I have a strong sense of self, but that's not a negative thing.

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

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

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.

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.

You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.

Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?

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

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.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

I don't have regrets because they are negative.

I've actually always wanted to be able to read people's minds. My sister did a movie with super-powers and that's the one I would have wanted, so I really lucked out. The negative is that people are really cruel in their own minds, but you can weed out the bad people from the good people, and then just hang out with the good people.

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.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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'm not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.

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.

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

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.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.

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

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.

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

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.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

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.

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

Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.

Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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

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.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

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.

Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.

I never approach a character from a negative place.

Until the company believes in itself, AOL didn't have its own space and identity in the marketplace. The opportunity is to get out from under the negative history and figure out the value AOL offers for consumers and for publishers and advertisers.

Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.

What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.