I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.
~By Robert Barclay ~
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 ~
When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
~By David Bowie ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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 ~
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 ~
It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.
~By Jim Garrison ~
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 ~
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
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.
~By John Newcombe ~
Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.
~By Harold Stephen Black ~
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.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Diva has a negative connotation.
~By Glenn Close ~
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 ~
Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.
~By Bell Hooks ~
I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.
~By Leif Garrett ~
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.
~By Godfrey Reggio ~
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 ~
When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.
~By George Woodcock ~
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
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 ~
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 ~
Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.
~By Claude Shannon ~
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
~By Vernon Howard ~
I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.
~By Josh Silver ~
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
~By Abbe Pierre ~
The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.
~By Mark E. Hyman ~
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
~By Andre Maurois ~
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.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
What's the point of being negative or fearful? We can't control it.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
~By Nancy Friday ~
Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.
~By Justin Guarini ~
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 ~
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
~By Alan Watts ~
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
~By Peace Pilgrim ~
Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
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.
~By John Edward ~
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
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 ~
Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.
~By Hugh Prather ~
This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.
~By Richard M. Helms ~
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.
~By David Fincher ~
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 ~
There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.
~By Serge Lang ~
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 ~
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'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
~By Harold Bloom ~
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 ~
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
~By Imre Lakatos ~
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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.
~By John McDonald ~
We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative.
~By Herb Kohl ~
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 ~
It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.
~By Randy Harrison ~
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
~By Aimee Mann ~
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 ~
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
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.
~By George Soros ~
I do my job in Type O Negative.
~By Josh Silver ~
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.
~By Matthew Modine ~
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
~By Van Morrison ~
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 ~
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 ~
Accent your positive and delete your negative.
~By Donna Karan ~
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 ~
If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
~By Said Musa ~
Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
~By Walther Bothe ~
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
~By James Hillman ~
Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
~By Alex Cox ~
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 ~
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
~By Tom Brown, Jr. ~
I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.
~By Brion James ~
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
~By Michael Jordan ~
Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.
~By Brian Koslow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Mitt Romney ~
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
~By Barry Mann ~
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