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. – Stephen Leacock
There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative. – Serge Lang
If you embrace ‘positive thinking,’ you are – by definition – spurning ‘negative thinking.’ So it’s as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side – the ‘positive thinking’ side. – Srikumar Rao
I’m honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I’m diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response. – Tim Gunn
It’s wonderful to feel supported, but there’s a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head. – Sienna Miller
Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons. – Tim Wise
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others’ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. – Steve Jobs
I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation. – Sammi Hanratty
The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it’s cluttered. It’s very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don’t read subtitles. But we’re like that in Canada, too. – Xavier Dolan
Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting. – Zig Ziglar
I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before – and from other years, too – to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. – Tony Romo
I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don’t even like being around negative talkers. – Sir Mix-a-Lot
Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the way we’re treating other people in our brief interactions with them. – Tom Rath
I can’t be around someone who is negative because I am such a positive person. If you are mean, then we don’t speak. – Trevor Jackson
Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment. – Walther Bothe
Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people’s attention, then maybe they’ll go and find out more about the person. – Shepard Fairey
Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers. – William Julius Wilson
The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America’s small businesses. – Sam Graves
I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems. – Yuji Horii
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. – Tom Glazer
The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative – and actually, I’ve bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well. – Victoria Beckham