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Quotes About Negative

How many companies can say that the amount of customers who use their services second most often, and spend the second most amount of money with them, are "very negative"?
~ Charles Fishman
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.
~ Gray Davis
Regretful and negative thoughts about the past can effectively induce the same kind of fight or flight response that external threats stimulate.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Exhaustion usually feeds negative thinking.
~ James Holland
atoms change their charge from negative to positive when they lose an electron.
~ James Patterson
I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.
~ William Gibson
The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
~ Sam Graves
The reason I am so negative about the Federal Reserve's policies is that they only target core inflation and argue that they can't identify bubbles, but when each bubble bursts, they flood the system with liquidity that brings about unintended consequences.
~ Marc Faber
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.
~ Carl D. Anderson
Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
~ Alex Cox
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.
~ Paul Weller
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.
~ Dustin Diamond
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
~ Patti Smith
I don't view our approach as negative. I view our approach that when you have a candidate in a Republican primary make statements that would make his position to the left of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama on immigration... we need to bring that out to the people.
~ Chuck Fleischmann
Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
~ Joe Torre
I can't stay in L.A. too long or it starts to grow on me in a bad way.
~ Henry Thomas
Sources and apps that goad us into emphasizing our aggression, encourage us to aggrandize ourselves at the expense of others, and reward us for displaying our most negative thoughts are destroying our ability to function as citizens, even without the slew of emotional problems created when our minds are spinning in a tornado of random sensory input all day.
~ Thomas M. Nichols
The same self-reinforcing tendency that perpetuates an attitude can also magnify attitude changes--particularly in the negative direction. A single bad experience can frighten you so that you get a negative feeling each time you encounter anything related to the cause of the bad experience.
~ THOMAS R. BLAKESLEE
When the powerful wisdom that understands the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear. Beyond the ego—the agitated, uncontrolled mind—lie everlasting peace and satisfaction. That's why Lord Buddha prescribed penetrative analysis of both your positive and your negative sides. In particular, when your negative mind arises, instead of being afraid, you should examine it more closely.
~ Thubten Yeshe
Having these negative imprints on my mental continuum is unbearable. "It's as if I've swallowed a lethal poison. I must practice the antidote right away and purify all this negative karma immediately, without a second's delay." In this way, generate strong feelings of urgency and regret.
~ Thubten Zopa
Furthermore, because your spiritual teachers, parents, and bodhisattvas are objects of special significance—the fruitional effects are inconceivably [grave] if you accumulate negative karma in relation to them—single them out [for special focus] and engage in the training.
~ Thupten Jinpa
Religion. Hmm. I guess it's like fire. In good hands, fire can be used to do positive things, like keep you warm. Make s'mores. In bad hands, it can burn a witch at the stake. Lynch a Black body.
~ Tia Williams
Balotelli is a negative person with no respect for the team.
~ Giorgio Chiellini