Negative Results Quotes

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

It's easy to defend a policy that works. It's not so easy to defend a policy that didn't work.

A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

Sometimes ruin comes for lack of judgment.

Successful parties create their own monsters.

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.

I seem to play a lot of losers.

Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.

If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results.

Obviously you cannot tell of operations that go along well. Those that go badly generally speak for themselves.

There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.

Negative attitudes bring negative results.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

I grew up with a lot of friends that had a lot of abilities to do a lot of different things and chose different routes and it wasn't a great outcome for them.

Einstein said if somebody time and again does something, or tries to do something, with the same negative results, and continues to insist on doing so, then he's a fool. This strategy carried out, applied by the United States in Colombia, has been a total failure.

There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.

You never plan on losing double-digit games in a season. You don't plan on losing any.

It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.

It's very easy to make poor choices and have bad swings every now and then.

I know things can go pear-shaped.

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.