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The point about it is that if you're pointed toward some kind of goodness, some kind of light, something positive, you find your way through these trials and tribulations, ... I've basically dedicated my whole lyrical life to people's ability to cope with the struggle because I do believe there is a struggle. And I don't mean it in a negative sense. I just mean it in a realistic sense. Nothing is greater than staying right on the positive, but sometimes life can have a way of just pulling you back and dragging you a bit.

The ongoing dot.com market correction is far from having a negative effect on online retailing as a whole. It has actually led online retailers to renew their focus on customer service, cost reduction and profitability.

Until 15 May when voting started, the picture was positive. After that day we had good and negative sides,

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

We stressed to the kids the right way to do things. We talked about the negative effects and why you don?t want to do steroids. It?s cheating -- and certainly not a way to improve yourself.

We're in a very negative phase with the stocks right now.

We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.

When you've got the Republican governor of Colorado running around the state asking voters to suspend their TABOR law, and they're talking about privatizing their higher ed system because they can't afford it, it shows it's one of those things that would have a significant negative impact on public safety and education in Nevada,

When you start pulling out infrastructure that's been there over 100 years, that's a negative direction to be heading.

We believe that free shipping programs, including Amazon Prime, had a much greater negative impact to Amazon's gross margins than we'd originally anticipated.

While January numbers were good and encouraging, I don't think we want to read too much into them in terms of the rest of the year. There is still a lot of negative economic news out there. I think that's reflected in the retailers' forecast for sales growth in 2006.

When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, 'For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.' So think twice when you buy a vintage ring!

We remain negative on PCs and semis and believe there is still downside risk to estimates and stock prices.

We would probably say it's a mistake. You get kind of short-term satisfaction on the part of the university, but in the long run, you mostly hurt poor people. ... Basically, there's a negative economic impact on the poorest people, and it doesn't affect government policy or the people running the government.

What he did was the right thing for him. Unfortunately, it has a negative influence on a lot of other people. Going into professional sports and making the money he's made does not close the option for him to still get a formal education. It does close the option for a kid that does not make it. If I'm some kid from the inner-city who has used athletics to motivate myself and I miss, I have no more options.

We better understand that games in this stadium with non-conference opponents can have a very negative effect if they're not prepared, ... UAB and Miami of Ohio are two such evidences of that.

We believe this will have a negative impact on February sales for the majority of our retailers as the much colder weather will likely impede store traffic, and sales of spring merchandise sets that are now in stores may be impacted.

We're going to have to take the full brunt of the negative impact in the marketplace, ... In a market environment you cannot have an imbalance between supply and demand, so price is your rationer. ... The price has to go up enough to destroy enough demand to bring things back in balance.

We're going to have more people talking about the Fed becoming less aggressive, which will be neutral or negative for the market because the market has been feeding off low interest rates. I don't think the Fed commentary is going to be as predictable and direct as the last meeting.

Unless the outcome contains a major negative surprise, the underlying firm tone of the dollar is expected to be sustained, as the market is now betting on continued interest rate hikes in the US.

Unless major negative influences are felt in the economic or monetary context, the group looks forward to ending the year with another record in sales and profits,

We removed everything we knew---all the stars and galaxies both near and far. We were left with a picture of part of the sky with no stars or galaxies, but it still had this negative glow with giant blobs that we think could be the glow from the very first stars.

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

We're extremely disappointed that our institution has been cast in a negative light as a result of our men's basketball scheduling practices the past three years. I honestly believe that Iowa State University did not knowingly do anything wrong as it relates to scheduling these non-conference games.

We're facing some negative sentiment in Washington. We talk to lots of people in Washington. Their message is: More is needed.

Were it not for data services, most carriers would be reporting negative ARPU.

We're in this volatile trading range right now until we see what the Fed's going to do. A quarter-point rate increase is clearly built in (bond yields). You really want to see what further direction the Fed's going to give from that point -- whether this is the first of several rate hikes, which I think would be a negative for the market.

We're just not going to deal with his negative accusations and mudslinging,

We're fully expecting our share of negative press. So far, we're not getting much.

We're focusing much too much on what's moving, which at the margin are the kind of that are negative for stocks and forgetting what's really crucial here. The fact is we are in an excess supply of money relative to the needs of the economy and corporate earnings growth will in fact be quite good in the third quarter.

We're basking in the glow of negative inflation in the month of November.

We're ready to rock 'n' roll. We got all the negative stuff out of the way the last few weeks. We're playing beautiful right now.

We know what sports has meant in our lives. We want to create a healthy, safe world and give these children an opportunity to lead a better life. There's too many evil forces out there trying to recruit them into negative activities.

I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.

Since you are "in the market," you need to set standards of what you are seeking in a partner and in a relationship. Dating is not simply a prelude to a committed relationship or marriage. Dating is an opportunity to evaluate whether the person you are dating is a good candidate for you. You need to pay attention to your partner's positive and negative characteristics. Ask yourself whether you could live with this person for the rest of your life.

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.

Before I started studying martial arts, I had temper problems. I could definitely fly off the handle. Being raised in the south in 1956 definitely gave me some memories to latch onto for negative emotions.

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing,

With today's report, the odds of a negative quarter of GDP growth have increased substantially, and the chances of a full-fledged recession just went up -- perhaps approaching 50-50. Job losses cut directly into the spending of the newly unemployed, and indirectly tend to have a very real impact on the confidence of those who are still working. If demand falls, firms will lay off more employees, and the downward spiral could put us over the edge into a bona fide recession before the Fed's actions can take effect.

With today's report, the odds of a negative quarter of GDP (gross domestic product) growth have increased substantially.

With three negative reports in a row, it's ugly. What we are seeing is two things: it is the storms and a pre-existing condition that came with the end of auto discounting. Part suppliers and their raw materials suppliers benefited from auto sales incentives.

Worries about rising U.S. inflation and what that will mean for Fed rates may hurt consumer spending. Those concerns are negative for shares.

Workers forget to ask for permission and bosses don't quite get the importance of these rallies. In general, most companies don't want to be at odds with the immigrant community and they certainly do not want to have a negative focus placed on them now.

We're still in the pre-reporting season, so, we'll hear more warnings from corporate America, hopefully more positive than negative in terms of guidance.

We're still in a negative trend. Long-term interest rates are too high, earnings estimates are still too high. We've had seven out of eight down weeks, so we saw a little bounce in the beginning of this week. But the downward pressure hasn't eased.

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

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.

We have negative news coming out of the home builders this morning, and obviously that's been an area that has led the economy.

What the president is effectively saying is that the economy will this year grow by over 35%, from a negative of 35% in the past seven years, which is not possible. You cannot achieve growth where there is no investment.

You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

The media loves negative spin.

Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.

The congresspersons who are co-sponsoring the bill are being beat up in their districts with negative advertising. We need to go to them and say we understand; we're here to help and on your side.

For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood.

When an image is said to be singular, it is meant that it is absolutely determinate in all respects. Every possible character, or the negative thereof, must be true of such an image.

The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.

I can't do negative, needy, or narcissistic anymore. Oh wait, I can still do the last one, aw nuts.

If you're hanging out with two negative people, do they equal one positive person?

I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word "confessional". I don't like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don't want to put myself so directly in the foreground.

Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.

The reduction in the yield differential is a negative for the rand. With the rand being strong so recently, some people may be speculating about a cut in South African rates.

...there are still truths in the Bible and many other ancient texts despite what religions have done to destroy and debase them. Religious dogma and myth have been used very successfully either to suppress understanding or to twist the truth sufficiently to turn something positive into something negative.

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.

I don't care what you do with that negative, you can retouch it, you can spit on it, you can grind it underfoot. The only thing that matters is if it is honest. If [the picture] is honest, you and everybody can tell. If it is dishonest, you and everybody can tell.

I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e., "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."

Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes. No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.

Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.

A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses, is not flawed but complete.

What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness.

Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.

You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

Its disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and Im comfortable with myself.

Block out all the negative energy, and just love.

Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

I'm a friend of the CEO of Twitter and he showed me how to be on it, but it causes such an uproar if what you post is perceived in a negative light.

I confess that Roy [Stryker] was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.

Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

You may have problems to solve but for every problem there is always a solution. It’s a positive-and-negative thing: you can’t have a problem without there being a solution. There always is. Your job is to find it…

We want the business people to know there are a lot of people like us, who are very worried about the negative impact of illegal immigration and who spend money at their business.

We did not anticipate the reaction would be so negative from graduate students and some faculty. That realization really impacted me emotionally. It was one of those things where you thought you were trying to do the right thing and you found out you were doing harm.

Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952.

If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

There are polls out there that have us even. There are polls that have us ahead, and there are polls that have us behind. And the two things that all the polls agree on are that John Kerry is ahead in battleground states -- and that people who have yet to make a decision are very negative about the president and very negative about the current direction of the country.

There are no experts out there willing to testify that because these guys are testing negative now that they will continue to test negative. The jury is still out and will be out for a long time as to whether these people are disease free. It might be five, 10, 15 years down the road before we know whether they'll continue to test negative.

We've been in a relatively negative technology environment ever since the August rally ended, ... Today's drop is a follow-through on more bad news. Also, the developments on Iraq and deflationary concerns in the economy remain in the background.

We're actually very encouraged by the enrollment figures. They show that people are realizing that there's value to this plan, and they're enrolling, despite a lot of negative press.

We heard about it before that game -- Thornton's going to put 100 points on the board, the game will be over in the first quarter. But if that happened, all people were going to say is, 'I told you so.' I knew nothing negative could come out of this.

Yes, of course, you are very upset, you're mad, you're trying to find all these negative things and turn them into positives. All these feelings that you're feeling, embarrassment in front of your friends and family is probably the biggest thing. And it's just something you have to grow from and get over.

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.

We have regressed. You can't really argue with that. Our team defense is Swiss cheese right now. Any time you are giving up the points we've given up over the last seven games, you can't say anything but negative things about our defense. I can't think of anything positive.

There is a long list of negative news today,

There is a limit to the negative effect on the yen of the capital outflows that have been driving it down for the last two months.

There is clearly an expectation of higher bond yields going forward. Negative sentiment towards Canadian fixed income did not shift significantly since the last survey, but then again, it would have been difficult to be more negative.

There is both good and bad news, ... But the big negative from our perspective is the asbestos reserve review. That will leave a cloud over the shares.