Bradley Wright-Phillips Quotes

It's easy for people to talk about the negative.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

Snark describes a cynical position, and I'm not interested in that.

What sells more, criticism or compliments? What do people like more? They enjoy blood.

I do not like negative attacks.

Being critical is not something I like to do. I like to appreciate and inspire.

I'd rather be an angry optimist than an angry nihilist.

When I make criticism, it's constructive. It's not right only to focus on the negatives.

Most of the criticism I get is that I am too positive and too hopeful... in my words, I don't beat people down enough.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

Everyone gets criticized.

If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.

It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things.

I deal with haters on a daily basis.

People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

There are all of these people that say, my mommy doesn't love me enough, my daddy doesn't hug me enough. There are some people that would want to coddle them somewhere. I want them to shut up and stop whining.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

I never wish for critics.

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.