The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

- Ansel Adams

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

- Avicii

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

- Armando Iannucci

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

- Andre Maurois

If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.

- Alan Arkin

Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.

- Aziz Ansari

There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.

- Ashton Kutcher

I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.

- Anthony Hopkins

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

- Ansel Adams

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

- Amy Lee

Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something.

- Allen Iverson

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

- Alexander Wang

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

- Alan Watts

Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.

- Alan Greenspan

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

- Alain de Botton

It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

- Adora Svitak

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

- Abby Wambach