Words matter. These are the best Bad News Quotes from famous people such as Simon Sinek, Eric Kandel, Travis Bradberry, John Hawkes, James Surowiecki, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it’s bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.
In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite – shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes on.
Offbeat questions are nearly impossible to prepare for, and they don’t achieve the interviewer’s objective – to test out-of-the-box thinking and the ability to perform under pressure. That’s the bad news. The good news is that companies are moving away from them.
If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that’s pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they’ve been doing it for 40 years, that’s bad news.
In the business world, bad news is usually good news – for somebody else.
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
I live in Palm Beach, where no one wants to hear bad news.
The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.
I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.
The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.
Sharing bad news with strangers is most certainly a selfish act.
Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it’s overcoming the facts.
The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
The good news is that I’ve already outlived two Brontes, Keats, and Stephen Crane. The bad news is that I haven’t written anything.
Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he’s really pissed off.
The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.
It’s good news that all the parties, well, with the exception of the People’s Party, recognize that we’re in a climate crisis. It’s bad news that there are parties that still are not being upfront and honest with the people of Canada about what we need to do about it.
There are many ways to improve your writing. Here’s the bad news: 1.They all require hard work. 2.There is no magic bullet.
I can’t see what’s wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what’s bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
The bad news is that my thin melanoma has something called mitosis, which means the cancer cells are dividing and multiplying even as I write. My thin melanoma has already spread outside of the tumor and into the deep layers of skin.
Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only come to expect something for nothing, but are then rewarded for how loudly they can ventilate their sense of having been victims of fraud.
Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.
The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
Lord knows there’s a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.
Deliver bad news early and personally.
The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!
Even with the bad news, I felt calm. I never shed a tear when I called my wife and said, ‘Amber, my test is positive. I have Ebola.’
I’ve always known if anything killed me, it would be boys. From the time I was a teenager into my thirties, I loved only the ones who were bad news.
Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
In nicey-nicey land, you must be happy-clappy and positive all the time – bad news is taboo.
It’s always bad news when a player gets injured – dreadful news.
Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.
Playing around with other people’s husbands when you were 17 was bad news. Yes, I was a very naughty girl.
Cancer makes people think about mortality. It scares your friends and family. And many cancer patients, consciously or otherwise, try to buffer bad news with a dose of positivity.
The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won’t go up – one that says Americans and small-business owners won’t get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
They made a mistake. And it was an easy mistake to make. I don’t regard setting incentives aggressively as a mistake. I think the mistake was, when the bad news came, they didn’t recognize it directly. I don’t think that impairs the future of Wells Fargo. They’ll be better for it.
You know Bad News, ‘The Young Ones?’ I learned not to spend a buttload of money on a sixth member.
One of the most exciting parts of the Nexus and ‘Bad News’ Barrett eras were I had a lot of influence in the character and I had a lot of influence in how I was going to portray myself.
I am in the bad news business. Seldom do I get to report on puppies, rainbows, or the sounds of children giggling. Well, never.
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.
I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news, is priceless.
Just like when I was in the NFL, you’ve got to find those smaller dudes – and when you get your hands on them, it’s bad news – all day.
I think Bad News Barrett was a lot of fun.
Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.
Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
I’ve just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law’s funeral. And she’s cancelled it.
I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news… it’s become a mental recession. We don’t have measured negative growth. That’s a fact, that’s not a commentary.
I always say that when a country wins with such overwhelming might, it’s bad news for that country.
We should not only look at the short-term economic benefits of fossil fuels but also at the bad news for climate change. We should therefore not greet the fossil fuel age unconditionally.
The government’s view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn’t want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.
The manners thing’s got worse. People think they can just text you if they’ve got bad news for you. It’s not on. And as for people taking pictures at gigs on their phones, that’s just weird.
One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans’ reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.
The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.
You really can’t do a remake. I mean, ‘King Kong’ needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the ‘Bad News Bears,’ or ‘The Shaggy D.A.,’ those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it’s just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O’Neal. It just isn’t the same.
I remember going to one party of this preppy, bourgeois crowd, and there was some obnoxious character there, really bad news, and saying, ‘Oh my God, so the caricature you always see in films actually exists.’
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