Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.
~By Jerry Harrison ~
The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.
~By Daniel Hannan ~
I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
~By Ike Turner ~
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.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
~By Michael Jordan ~
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.
~By Chris Cooper ~
I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore.
~By Sophia Bush ~
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
~By Dave Pelzer ~
More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.
~By John Hall ~
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.
~By Felicity Kendal ~
What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
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.
~By John Shadegg ~
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
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.
~By Berke Breathed ~
We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.
~By Mike Davidson ~
I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores.
~By Jeff Miller ~
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
~By Jonathan Raban ~
The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.
~By Douglas Dunn ~
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.
~By Genevieve Gorder ~
The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.
~By Rosa DeLauro ~
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
~By Barack Obama ~
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
~By Gary Busey ~
Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as "negative" is actually a liberating process for me.
~By Grey DeLisle ~
Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely.
~By Tom Glazer ~
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
~By Michael Jordan ~
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
~By Willie Nelson ~
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
~By Johnny Rotten ~
An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
~By Donald Cram ~
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
~By Sai Baba ~
Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
~By Kim Weston ~
There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
~By Albert Bandura ~
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
~By Michael Jordan ~
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.
~By Chuck Norris ~
I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
~By Jose Mourinho ~
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
I would say this is not negative this is h, a hard part in gymnastics. You can't eat, whatever you want to eat. And what kind of meal you're supposed to have, you can't.
~By Olga Korbut ~
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
~By Ansel Adams ~
Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody.
~By Bob Saget ~
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.
~By Shimon Peres ~
My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.
~By Josh Silver ~
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
~By David Kay ~
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
~By Andre Maurois ~
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.
~By E. M. Forster ~
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
~By Flip Wilson ~
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
~By Barry Mann ~
Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.
~By Claude Shannon ~
If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.
~By Stephen Malkmus ~
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
~By Robert Collier ~
Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.
~By Marilu Henner ~
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.
~By Gray Davis ~
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
~By Paul Theroux ~
When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff"-negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.
~By Joe Pantoliano ~
No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.
~By Mathew Brady ~
God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
All these child stars grow up and they're knockin' over banks and getting prostitutes. I'm, like, one of the only people I know that has managed to dodge all of that negative crap.
~By Dustin Diamond ~
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.
~By Franklin Raines ~
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.
~By John Cameron ~
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
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.
~By James Lovelock ~
What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
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.
~By John Shelby Spong ~
Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
~By Frederick Pollock ~
I never thought a role model should be negative.
~By Michael Jordan ~
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.
~By Andrew Lloyd Webber ~
There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.
~By Serge Lang ~
Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
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?
~By Nhat Hanh ~
I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
~By David Bowie ~
The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
~By Christine Baranski ~
The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use.
~By Emma Thompson ~
There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
~By Will Smith ~
I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.
~By Michael Graves ~
I do my job in Type O Negative.
~By Josh Silver ~
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
~By Denis Waitley ~
You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
~By Jane Roberts ~
When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.
~By George Woodcock ~
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
~By Ansel Adams ~
After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.
~By Robert MacNeil ~
I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
~By Billy Corgan ~
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
~By Abdul Kalam ~
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
~By Doug Coupland ~
I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.
~By Chloe Sevigny ~
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
~By Nancy Friday ~
For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down.
~By Julia Ormond ~
I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
~By Zac Efron ~
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
~By Hans Selye ~
My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
~By Oksana Baiul ~
Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.
~By Marilu Henner ~
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