| #57: | I used to think the platypus was my favorite monotreme until I met the echidna. So hard to choose! (and the hurt feelings if I do)
— Tue Apr 28 2009 22:11 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #134: | Regret is such a painful emotion that people will do anything to avoid it. They'll deny history or cripple their future to make it go away.
— Thu May 07 2009 10:42 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #178: | Preceding every collapse is euphoria, the feeling that we are special and can do anything and that the old rules no longer apply.
— Mon May 11 2009 01:17 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #209: | A sociopath is incapable of empathizing with others. He may detect & exploit others' feelings, but he doesn't identify with them.
— Fri May 15 2009 10:10 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #229: | Modern audio-visual entertainment overloads the emotional system, making people numb and passive. My old essay: http://bit.ly/mztcx
— Sat May 16 2009 15:20 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #263: | Never get angry. It is a universally destructive emotion. It eats you up inside while getting poor results outside.
— Tue May 19 2009 13:31 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #264: | Romantic advice comes in two flavors: "Trust your feelings" and "Trust no one." Can't there be a middle ground?
— Tue May 19 2009 16:03 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #276: | You can't sing the same song over and over with real feeling. Only the first few times are genuine; it's acting after that.
— Wed May 20 2009 15:05 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #280: | Information obesity results in passivity and shallowness of feeling. You do only the minimum required of you, little more.
— Wed May 20 2009 18:36 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #294: | Boredom is an attitude, not a real emotion. It reflects your own refusal to make creative use of the time available to you.
— Thu May 21 2009 10:13 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #518: | For a witness to be emotionally satisfying he must be superhuman to us. We feel alive only when acknowledged by someone higher.
— Fri Jun 05 2009 13:55 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #609: | The Beatles invented musical irony. Before that, popular songs expressed only bland, conventional emotions.
— Thu Jun 11 2009 00:54 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #814: | Someone can be "smart" and "talented" but that's only part of the story. The rest is how they are emotionally invested.
— Fri Jun 26 2009 14:51 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1008: | Most people make poor photographers because they can't separate their own emotions from what actually appears in the eye.
— Mon Jul 27 2009 15:16 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1013: | Words won't change an emotionally-driven behavior. Only boundaries can. http://bit.ly/hRjxO (Kilroy Cafe #22) Addiction, dom. violence, etc.
— Tue Jul 28 2009 00:17 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1058: | "Old" is the state of being so trapped in your past emotional investments that you can no longer significantly change.
— Tue Aug 04 2009 01:13 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1089: | Intelligence or stupidity is almost always a matter of controlling or not controlling your emotions.
— Sat Aug 08 2009 12:12 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1252: | Artistic maturity is the trading of trite and simplistic emotions for complex and layered ones.
— Sat Aug 22 2009 14:47 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1287: | Shower at a North Dakota truck stop: $6. That minty fresh feeling: priceless.
— Wed Aug 26 2009 00:37 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1326: | No one is asking, "Why couldn't Michael Jackson sleep?" There were existential reasons. He was caught in his own emotional conundrums.
— Thu Aug 27 2009 09:15 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1479: | Belief follows necessity. People believe what they need to believe to support their ego and make their circumstances emotionally tolerable.
— Mon Sep 28 2009 12:50 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1547: | Most adults are a minefield of poor choices and conflicting emotions. You must carefully watch your words to avoid destabilizing them.
— Tue Oct 13 2009 12:11 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1563: | Intelligence is a test of how well you can separate logic from emotion in the decisions that matter most.
— Fri Oct 23 2009 01:00 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1571: | Most people's lives are a minefield of poor choices and conflicting emotions propped up by delusion and wishful thinking.
— Sun Oct 25 2009 17:27 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1577: | Emotional neediness may provide motivation but it kills creative detachment. You are most creative when you need nothing.
— Sun Oct 25 2009 23:02 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #1600: | The most powerful human emotion is regret: inner shame for ones own mistakes. Grief doesn't go on forever, but regret can!
— Thu Oct 29 2009 15:15 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2018: | "When a male's emotional growth is stunted, he'll sometimes compensate by using his vehicle to prove his masculinity" - OTS via @nictate
— Tue Jan 19 2010 11:27 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2601: | The main social tool of children is emotional manipulation. They cry and we come.
— Mon Mar 01 2010 13:22 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2827: | Health care emotions: No one should suffer from a treatable disease. The reality: There will never be enough resources to treat everyone.
— Tue Mar 23 2010 15:25 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #2894: | Photos don't lie? Wrong! They usually contain distortions of space and time, conveying different feelings than were present when taken.
— Fri Apr 02 2010 17:05 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3029: | Belief follows emotional necessity. Evidence is backfilled later to support the belief.
— Wed May 19 2010 10:11 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3084: | Macintosh users have the warm and fuzzy feeling of being involved in a progressive social movement. PC users just get work done.
— Mon May 31 2010 12:35 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3275: | No great fraud can be blamed entirely on deception. The victim also conned himself, ignoring the warning signs to serve his emotional need.
— Thu Jul 01 2010 14:04 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3297: | Latest news flash from Hollywood is that the people who make their living pretending to be other people are emotionally screwed up. Duh!
— Thu Jul 08 2010 02:09 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3352: | Established citizens, with homes, marriages, families and careers, live in fragile emotional worlds you must tiptoe around in when visiting.
— Wed Jul 14 2010 11:47 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3408: | Each of us has an emotional immune system that attacks and destroys any new ideas that conflict with what we have already committed to.
— Mon Jul 26 2010 03:17 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3452: | There is no friend, no matter how close, with whom we can share everything we are thinking and feeling. There will always be barriers.
— Tue Aug 10 2010 06:56 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3467: | histrionic — given to overly dramatic emotional behavior. Usually exhibited by only one romantic partner, the other being their enabler.
— Wed Aug 11 2010 20:14 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3472: | Adults are trapped by past investments to which they are emotionally committed. This restricts their vision and their freedom to explore.
— Thu Aug 12 2010 10:33 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3473: | The more emotionally trapped a person is, the more repetitive and ritualized his activities. He'll "explore" only within a narrow range.
— Thu Aug 12 2010 10:37 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3474: | The ritualized activities of old age aren't a function of the body but of accumulated emotional investments restricting any alternatives.
— Thu Aug 12 2010 10:43 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3675: | People believe what they have to believe to avoid disrupting their existing emotional investments.
— Tue Aug 31 2010 09:53 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3763: | Humans are natural hoarders. They infuse objects with emotional meaning and don't want to part with them.
— Fri Sep 10 2010 10:50 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3772: | People who cannot express their true feelings to the world are dangerous. Their frustration becomes subversive aggression.
— Sat Sep 11 2010 10:43 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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| #3845: | Television is the force-feeding of experiences, much faster than your emotional system can digest them.
— Sat Sep 18 2010 18:45 GMT — view/retweet - FavStar
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