I think you should always be seeking negative feedback.
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.
Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.
How many times, in any actor's life, do you get to be a part of something that has a legacy like [Buffy]? I think that's only fortunate. I don't see the negative.
We've been human countless times and done everything you can imagine. So we've been planting all these negative seeds, and they're going to come up.
The negative screams at you but the positive only whispers.
You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself. . . I never have; I never will.
deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac. . . It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.
Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response.
Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent.
We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.
Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
I felt like if I said something positive on Twitter, it got no play. But if I said something negative on Twitter, it was a billion retweets and so that was giving me a Pavlovian response to be mean, and I don't want to be mean. We all have mean thoughts. They should not be broadcast on Twitter. You don't need to see mean things.
Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.
Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be negative tax rates. There can be subsidies. There can be allowances for depreciation. Lobbyists are adaptive creatures.
Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time
In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day.
The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.