Sometimes negative news does come out but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women that is the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Research programmes besides their negative heuristic are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

The news is what it is. It's going to be good it's going to be positive it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads.

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have but on the negative side financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

After I became a citizen I felt freer to say what I thought about this country both negative and positive. I think I had been consciously and subconsciously biting my tongue in the past.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive even in a negative situation.

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

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.

And they said if we help with the crisis they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

But when I first got cancer after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

I had to come from something come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive and as it turned out it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.

No matter who you meet in life you take something from them positive or negative.

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

I believe that by and large people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

My Botswana books are positive and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.