The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. William S. Burroughs
...it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives... Francis Bacon
What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body? Samuel Laman Blanchard
Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives. Amy Sedaris
Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers. Brian McDermott
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. Denis Waitley