“Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most of us just run. Those guys threw it around. I like to think I can throw it around a little bit.” ThinkingLittlesI CanRunningGuyBitsMoonLittle BitNegativeAfrican AmericanStereotypeQuarterbackNegative Stereotypes Author:Robert Griffin III
“I have a cheese-shredder at home, which is its positive name. They don't call it by its negative name, which is sponge-ruiner. Because I wanted to clean it, but now I have little bits of sponge that would melt easily over tortilla chips.” LittlesHomeHumorWantedFunnyNamesBitsLittle BitNegativeCleanCheeseChipsSpongesTortillas Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I confess that Roy [Stryker] was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.” LittlesUsedBitsNumbersLittle BitNegativeValuableHolesEditingRuined Author:Ben Shahn
“Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to continue down the disastrous track you're on and have a huge disaster? Talk about a bruised ego. It may ruin your career.” WantMayLittlesFeelingsBitsHurtCareersHugeEgoLittle BitNegativeTrackDisasterRuinsFeedbackHurt FeelingsBruisedNegative Feedback Author:Charles Koch
“Comedians are - at the end of the day, we're just a bunch of people that lack a little bit of - we're very insecure, and we want to be loved and liked by everybody. And you know, I could check my Twitter and there could be 150 people that say wonderful things. There'll be one person who says something negative. And all we focus on is that negative.” PeopleKnowsWantLittlesPersonsEndsBitsFocusWonderfulLittle BitNegativeChecksBunchComedianThe End Of The DayInsecureWonderful Things Author:Russell Peters
“It's really about taking something inherently negative, and starting with the word loser, starting with something that's negative, and changing it into something that's positive, redefining it, but doing it in a certain way, how - like I would say when I look out at the world and you see it's dark and it's just overbearing and every day is depressed, depressed, depressed. What it took was to change my perspective a little bit. Not to change the world, to change my perspective.” WorldWayLooksLittlesCertainBitsDarkPerspectiveLittle BitNegativeStartingChanging The WorldLoserRedefiningOverbearing Author:Lupe Fiasco
“In some contexts in Pakistan maybe a beard is negative. It depends. And in some contexts in America maybe a beard is positive. I think there's certainly lots of hipster communities where having a beard makes me look a little bit less like a, you know, middle-aged fuddy-duddy. And there's some places in Pakistan where having a beard, you know, certain corporate contexts, certain social contexts, where it's not an advantage to have a beard.” ThinkingKnowsLooksLittlesAmericaCertainSocialBitsCommunityMiddleDependsLittle BitAdvantageNegativeCorporatePakistanBeardMiddle AgedHipster Author:Mohsin Hamid