Quotes about Negative

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Rita Mae Brown

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

H. Norman Schwarzkopf

We have no indication that the cartoon row has had a negative effect on trade and business there. The top executives in the region are highly educated and have close relations with their German counterparts. They are not affected by the conflict.

Jochen Clausnitzer

The news from Microsoft is a significant negative, but clearly the market isn't buckling with that announcement.

Bob Sitko

Though the (economic data) have been mixed, they've been more negative than positive, and the outlook for the risks the economy faces is distinctly on the downside. The Fed has more to gain by erring on the side of accommodation.

Michael Moran

Everything negative in my life was a direct result of alcohol and drugs.

Mindy Gehr

I don't want to sit here and say anything negative about my time there. I think the best thing to say is that it did run its course. It was just a good time for everyone to move on.

Joe Borchard

Some funds shift their assets heavily, but it's really hard to blunt the blow of volatility. Negative returns in the double digits are not uncommon.

Sonya Morris

I have seen an overall attitude change in all of them. Some of them have gone from being really negative and not wanting to do their homework, to coming in and being happy and doing their homework without me making them.

Amy Mcfarland

To the extent that they're at the beginning of their cycle, much as we were 12 months ago, that suggests a negative outlook for their bonds.

Bill Gross

Clearly, the immediate impact of the events of Sept. 11 was negative -- from disrupted sales, air travel and production, not to mention the effect on the attitudes and expectations of consumers and businesses.

Roger Ferguson

The league does drug testing and his results, along with the rest of the Ducks' results, came out negative.

Michael Hirsch

They (teachers) have to know, making your classroom public, that's not going to be a negative experience.

Keith Morris

High oil prices may raise inflation but longer-term it's negative for growth and that's how the Fed sees it.

David Mann

If we can stay up in this league, then anything is a bonus, ... That's not negative, that's realistic. But we've made a really good start.

Paul Jewell

Silly, negative distortions from a desperate campaign are sad and irrelevant.

Doug Scofield

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

Brian Koslow

The pendulum has just been swinging back and forth with the fundamentals in the market, ... This is an extremely short crop, but the big negative has been questions about demand.

Sharon Johnson

If the negative ads are supposed to work, nothing's happened to Easley.

Thad Beyle

We've had an accumulation of hawkish comments from the ECB and the momentum behind the European economy is now quite strong. The picture remains quite negative for the bond markets.

Cyril Beuzit

But we offset the negative impact fully through the sales increase and cost-savings.

Takeshi Suzuki

It wasn't the effort I wanted to see. I hesitate to be negative because we won.

Matt Strophy

Our guys didn't react in a negative manner. They did what they were supposed to do.

Robert Worthy

If you bad-mouth your former employer, it shows you have no loyalty, you're negative - and you might act that way at a new job.

David Bowman

It was negative last week. It's going to be negative next week.

Kerry Sutton

In the midst of the negative atmosphere of the industry, this crowd was 180 degrees the opposite. The attitudes are up. ... They're not losing their love affair with the automobile.

Richard Genthe

You check the pregnancy test every month, and when it comes up negative it can start to wear on you.

Cindy Margolis

There is the only pure negative. That is the concern about addiction and people losing too much money, ... we've got a problem and we are going to tackle it.

Peter Hart

We expect weak household consumption, business investment and inventory run down to result in a negative headline number.

Shamubeel Eaqub

This celebrates all the great things youth do instead of the negative things you sometimes hear about.

Karen Lee

He is the only heir-apparent. I don't see any negative impact to the share price.

John Yang

The negative consequences of cancer are substantial and unappreciated.

Sheldon Greenfield

With all due respect to Paul Collingwood, who is a fine player, he would be a negative option.

Rod Marsh

All I've seen is negative campaigning. I can see why people get frustrated with that. You get tired of hearing this. It just turns you off.

Nick Russo

The report suggests we're one step closer to the Bank of Japan's exit from its current loose monetary policy. That's negative for Japanese government bonds.

Naomi Hasegawa

It would be a black eye if we got a negative report after being accredited for 10 years.

Sean Greene

There will be an initial negative impact on tourism based on the fear of flying as well as on people's fear of being in what they could call a target area.

Joseph West

Historically, any time of serious domestic economic struggle has had negative effects on the entertainment industry, as consumers re-prioritize the expenditure of their discretionary income.

Wayne Martin

I think the only negative today ? except that I didn't make all the birdies I wanted ? is that I let the field get closer.

Gil Morgan

There was a lot of negative comments about the double-decking. My thought is, relatively soon, we'll be putting that one to bed. We're certainly listening to the public out there. They've given us a lot of ideas.

Ron Kosinski

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.

Robert Barclay

So that further questions cannot arise . . . with the inevitable negative results.

John Hubbard

The big negative is their retail franchise was weak, hurt by contracting net interest margin.

Steve Roukis

It was a good quarter. There's not a lot of things to look at on the negative side.

Rob Sanderson

It continues to give a negative feeling that the story is an off-again story. It's been difficult, but the stocks have been volatile and institutions have been moving money in and out.

Joe Cangemi

This might be a slight dollar negative. The key was the core which was bang on expectations at 0.2 percent. So there's not much inflation there.

Nick Bennenbroek

Any time you get an FDA warning letter it is negative.

Steve Roukis

We didn't want to be negative. Something I've learned is once you get negative with younger players, they get frustrated and things go downhill from there.

Chase Verba

There's still only two confirmed. There's one that came back negative. I believe there are seven still pending.

Joan Saunders

The initial tests are negative for bird flu.

Celia Abolnik

Given the company's prior accounting and regulatory issues, this is likely to have a meaningful negative impact on the stock today.

Michael Hecht

Unfortunately, races seem to get more negative every year.

Thomas H. Kean

We didn't feel it was an affront or a negative thing, or an equation between the terrorists and the people who were trying to eliminate them — not innocent people, but people who would try to make another Munich.

Ankie Spitzer

The dollar's average break-even level for Japanese manufacturers is estimated at 115.32 yen for the current business year. So if the dollar slips to around 115 yen, that should be pretty negative to Japan's corporate earnings and its economy.

Masaaki Higashida

I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.

James Frey

We will not let this be a negative thing for us, ... I figure Coach [Bowers] had to do what he had to do. Since I may not see him, I plan on sending him a letter to make sure everything is OK.

Clare Phillips

Commodities prices are lower, which could be slightly negative for the Canadian dollar. The market is a little bit on edge as they wait to see what Dodge has to say about interest rates.

Reid Farrill

They need to look at what kinds of bills their legislator passed. Also, there are a lot of reasons to put forward a bill that does not pass, which are not necessarily negative.

Kirk Jowers

The FDA and the CDC cultured Gram-negative bacteria out of bags that were never opened here. It was impossible for us to get anything into those bags. They took the bags away from us whole.

Thomas Ryan

Fundamentally, there's nothing negative you can point to with Toyota.

Koichi Ogawa

That is surprising ... anytime you have so many negative things happen in a short time. Right now, it's bad luck.

Kartik Mehta

Tax increases through the back door. It's very insidious. I think it's very harmful and it's really going to have a very negative impact on the whole system if we don't reform it now.

Garth Turner

I've written a lot of negative stuff against her. I came to bury her and I've ended up praising her.

Michael Musto

We looked at the tape of the game and there are a few decisions that bothered us a bit but we don't want to be negative, the results are in and we must look forward and learn.

Naka Drotske

Less of the negative waves, Moriarty.

Donald Sutherland

We would not consider that any of these cases have been thoroughly tested yet, based on the extremely limited information we have seen. We feel at this moment it is really too early to say if both of these cases are negative.

Julie Hall

Fortunately, we have not had the kind of negative impact many feared.

Jack Norman

One meet Jerry will win, another will go to Matt and another will go to Adam. I like hearing them say that they should run in the top six and they don't say anything negative.

Davis Eidahl

It's been great; it's been fabulous. I myself have not gotten one negative response. We tried to do it and have done it in a way that we described. What it's going to enable us to do is keep the Smith Center a first-rate facility.

Dick Baddour

The only negative is the guidance for capital spending this year, which is much higher than expected.

Francis Cheung

The only thing that really dampened this season was the losing. I had a great time with this team. Those kids were great. Really, only the losing was a negative.

Joe Blair

One out of every four people in the metropolitan area and one out of every six in the country suffer from hay fever. The negative impact on the economy is significant.

Shintaro Ishihara

The concern that U.S. economic growth is slowing is having a negative impact on exporter stocks.

Lee Kun Hak

I finally found out in January that I was negative for everything.

Cindy Rossiter

Expectations of lower oil demand prompted funds selling because Hurricane Katrina has a negative effect in slowing down the U.S. economy.

Keiichi Sano

I know you think I'm crazy. I go into a different room and I actually felt like it takes me to a better place, positive instead of negative.

Martin Lawrence

They killed us on the boards. Our backside rebounding was almost negative the whole game. We didn't have anybody to go to the backside boards.

Charles Berry

I was glad to have that discussion with the editors because they have to deal with the perception that the media is emphasizing the negative.

Mike Silverman

A check would not always mean turning up something detrimental or negative.

Harvey Schiller

The pig is already out of the barn as far as the effects of the yield curve on net interest margins. Margins will probably get modestly worse, but it won't be dramatic because the real negative impact has been absorbed.

Jeffrey Harte

I was with him in the store and I was with him in bed when he was taken. Overnight everything was changed. Innocence was gone. Things I experienced that night, I never even dreamed of happening. It had a negative effect on my life but I made the best of what I had. I didn't let it destroy me.

Simeon Wright

Sales growth is very stable, so no bumpy ride there, even though the momentum is a little bit negative.

Vivienne Hsu

There's not much negative to say about these results.

Gert Biesmans

Look at the media we're attracting. This is not positive media, folks, this is negative media. We're becoming the laughingstock not only of the nation, but of the world, and I hate that.

Janet Waugh

It's not bad to reinforce Scott Air Force Base. Far from experiencing anything negative, we did extremely well in this round.

Jim Pennekamp

Anybody who did anything that was negative to a group, any label, those were the (T-shirts) that we collected. Any shirts that were positive, did not name (a group) and were not negative or offensive to a group were allowed to stay on campus.

Kathleen Sirovy

That story should be negative for the rand.

Jim Bryson

It is essential that we continue to educate administrators, coaches, parents, players, staff and volunteers on the negative effects of hazing.

Bob Nicholson

The post-drought rebuilding will hold back a bit of the growth and see agriculture still being a negative for 2005-06, but set us up for a very good 2006-07 - assuming average seasonal conditions.

Justin Smirk

There would have been massive integration problems and negative revenue synergies.

Per Lindberg

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Jamie Foxx

You have to let those things go by. Especially, if it's a negative.

Mike Fazio

Even though it was a negative thing that happened, I wasn't feeling too bad, 'cause a positive thing came out of it, ... I don't fault Miami for anything; I'm just here at Rutgers, at home, where I'm happy.

Nate Robinson

Almost certainly it will have a negative impact, (but) it's going to be hard to tell how much of an impact.

Michael Hogan

It's a very serious negative item on your report, on par with a tax lien or a bankruptcy. You will definitely pay more for your credit, in higher interest rates and higher down payments.

Maxine Sweet

We believe that the likely impact from this case of mad cow will be positive -- not negative -- for our restaurant names.

David Palmer

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.

John Mcdonald

The interesting thing is we've just had negative growth, the economy shrank in the fourth quarter of last year and it doesn't look like it's going to grow much in the first quarter of this year.

David Plank

High and prolonged levels of stress have negative effects particularly on the memory system.

Brian Robertson

People go negative when it's a close race.

David Crockett