“The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things.” WayLightSpaceKnowingTeacherWeekChangedDrawsShadowNegativeDrawingProportionNot KnowingPortraitsSpace BetweenSketchingLight And ShadowNegative Space Author:Daniel H. Pink
“Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a time in the future when we'll be ceaselessly happy and never have to fear negative emotions again. But in chasing all that, we close down the very faculties that permit the happiness we crave.” ThinkingTurnsEmotionKnowingPositive ThinkingApproachNegativeSafetyCertaintyRelatedFacultyPermitChasingCraveNegative Emotions Author:Oliver Burkeman
“The body has a wisdom of its own. However, slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a foundation, a basis of knowing that gives confidence to the ego. To reach its wisdom requires absolute concentration: dropping the mind into the body, breathing into whatever is ready to be released, and allowing the process of expression until the negative dammed up energy is out, making room for the positive energy, genuine Light, to flood in.” GivingMindBodyLightEnergyProcessRoomsKnowingReadyExpressionEgoNegativeBasesAbsolutesFoundationGenuineBreathingConcentrationAllowingFloodDroppingPositive Energy Author:Marion Woodman
“I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.” PeopleKnowingTaughtGrewGrew UpAdvantageNegativePressesGrandmotherRoughInfluentialMayorsAlbany Author:Kirsten Gillibrand
“There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.” WisdomSeemsValuesKnowledgeKnowingNegativeProofLatinNot KnowingBoastKnowledge Wisdom Author:Peter Brodie
“Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what one might call the affirmative use of a term is basic--that, to understand 'x,' we need to know what it is to be x, or to be an x, and that knowing this apprises us of what it is not to be x, not to be an x. But with 'real' (as we briefly noted earlier) it is the negative use that wears the trousers.” KnowsNeedsMayRealUseMightNextLanguageTermKnowingNegativeDareAffirmativeTrousers Author:J. L. Austin
“around 1977 I became very ... negative, I began to do things unconsciously that I didn't understand, and they were very sabotagistic and I didn't know what I was doing. I was pissing everybody off, I was breaking my bridges. I was hostile to people, I was doing performances and insulting people there - I was doing whatever I could to destroy whatever world I had created ten years before, without knowing, really, why” PeopleKnowsWorldYearsKnowingTenNegativePerformancesBridgesHostileInsulting Author:Charlemagne Palestine