In any kind of communal life, it's easy to see only the negatives: "Someone has got mud everywhere" or "Someone hasn't put the tape measure back where it belongs" (that really drives me nuts, even though it's usually me).
She advises to test whether you feel markedly different around a very negative person or someone with extreme ideas.
The burden has shifted to you to prove their innocence, and it is much, much harder to prove a negative (eg, someone didn't do something) than it is to prove someone did something.
"Instead of getting back with negative at someone who does something negative," Antonio's deceased grandfather advises him, "get back with positive at someone who does positive.
Instead of setting off a cascade of negative opinion, someone usually cast a positive vote to negate the unfair negative one.
Near the end of the analysts' call, whose tone was fairly pleasant considering all the negative news, someone asked Blackstone's executives to compare the recent credit upheaval to previous market dislocations throughout the years.
When I see the way Latrell Sprewell has turned around his image after the much-publicized confrontation with his coach, P. J. Carlesimo, it reinforces my belief that you can overcome something negative provided someone wants to help you.
Much of the chit chat inside the beltway is about whose ad is doing what to whom, whether one candidate is going negative, whether someone looks old or sick.
"I think it could be negative for someone to come to visit Antigua and read the city is corrupt," said José Victor Ordóñez, 79, a retired surgeon and Antiguan who is on the board of a civic group, Salvemos Antigua.
