Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive.
There's always negatives no matter what you're in in life. However if you keep being persistent the negative usually becomes a positive.
I take positives out of negatives all the time.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy. ]
There are a lot of negatives about Hillary that did not come out in the campaign, a lot of baggage that she and Bill have that was not discussed in the campaign.
I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
You have to know why you're rushing about. It's OK to rush about but it's important to know what's driving you, the positives of it and the negatives of it.
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. - pg. 41
[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.
Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.
What if two negatives make an affirmative. . . does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?
Life, in all its uniqueness, would not be life without the negatives and the positives.
There's no negatives. You just have to trust that what's happening in your life is unfolding in exactly the right way.
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
One of the things we've always tried to do is help others with our story. Whether it's with the infertility issues, whether it's with the breast cancer, we said we're gonna turn these negatives into positives. And if we can help others by sharing our story, then it's worth it.
You find photographs in so many different ways - from chance encounters, from looking at your negatives, from the way the light hits your pillow in your home, from a sound or a movement that makes you look. . . It’s whatever draws you or makes you feel something. Then, the picture is only good if it has a life of its own. Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it’s really good, it’s another form of life.
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
When we learn from our cause and effect we increase our positives, we chip away and hopefully eliminate our negatives, so we can be beneficial to everyone else. It's not about being good for me, it's about being the best that I can be so I can be a good husband, father, and neighbor.