“Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative. This low quality is not just a vague, woolly-headed, crypto-religious, metaphysical abstraction. It is an experience. It is not a judgment about an experience. It is not a description of experience. The value itself is an experience. As such it is completely predictable. It is verifiable by anyone who cares to do so.” PersonsCareValuesReligiousQualitySituationJudgmentIntellectualLowsNegativeArgumentHotDescriptionVaguePersuasionMetaphysicalWho CaresAbstractionPredictablePredicamentsPhilosophicStovesVerify Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“If you think about determination, if people have a heart and are determined, they can get to that place. But there are a lot of negative people who were enormously determined. All the Nazis were determined. They wanted to murder everyone. Everyone with a bad heart, who doesn't care about people, I wish they hadn't started.” PeopleIfsThinkingHeartCareWantedWishNegativeDeterminationMurderDeterminedNaziNegative PeopleBad Heart Author:Eddie Izzard
“They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative” CareFootballNegativeClubsCommentators Author:Alan Green
“Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up semen would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.” IfsCareMy OwnRoomsPositiveHairGainsNegativeWeightImpactCaringTake CareTake Care Of YourselfWeighingCaring Too Much Book:Openly Straight Source: Openly Straight
“If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the “Just fine, thank you, and how are you?” reply to the “How are you today?” The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels.” PeopleIfsFeelsShouldPersonsFeelingsCareTodayFineTerribleNegativeExpectedUnhappyMaskPoliteAccompanyGreetingsHappy PersonTrue FeelingsNegative FeelingsUnhappy Person Author:Paul Ekman