A Quote by Robert McKee

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse. — © Robert McKee
In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.
There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.
I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.
Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right.
Nothing I have ever done has made my future worse, my parents' life worse, my daughter's life worse.
Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to even worse.
I take all the negatives and try to turn it into a positive.
I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.
Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.
Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.
There are worse things in life to be attached to then seven seasons of Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo. It's in Atlanta, and we shoot during the fourth quarter of the year, so the weather is great. It's good Christmas money. I'm telling good stories with someone who I admire. Life could be worse. It could be a whole lot worse, at this stage in the game.
You just take the negatives and learn to make a positive out of it.
Every day it gets worse and worse and worse. We just want to get everyone to vote and be a part of the noise. I can't do phone banks because I have to save my voice for stage, so the least I can do is a song.
A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.
I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.
Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.
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