top of page
.png){kind=small}
Negative Quotes
"Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote."
28
"Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan."
17
"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."
8
"Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative."
8
"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."
7
"Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment."
7
"Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it."
6
"A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them."
6
"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."
5
"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."
5
"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."
5
"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."
5
"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative."
5
"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."
5
"It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way."
5
"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result."
5
"It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads."
5
"The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance."
5
"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."
4
"No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them."
4
"Consumption may be regarded as negative production."
4
"Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours."
4
"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."
4
"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."
4
"Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution."
4
"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?"
4
"Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability."
4
"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."
4
"They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group."
4
"Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes."
4
"When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative."
4
"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."
4
"A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy."
4
bottom of page