c(h)ronic

2012-02-14T16:02:00.000+02:00

hajdu tamas / original bedroom pixels

2012-02-14T15:50:00.002+02:00

it's gotta get bad before it gets worse.

2012-01-24T23:16:00.000+02:00

"Într-o zi Cilibi Moise a dat de o mare ruşine: l-au călcat hoţii noaptea şi n-au găsit nimic."
Cilibi Moise, comerciant

2012-01-10T14:05:00.000+02:00

http://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/

It seems to me that Facebook and Twitter and YouTube—and just so you don't think this is a generational thing, TV and radio and magazines and even newspapers, too—are all ultimately just an elaborate excuse to run away from yourself. To avoid the difficult and troubling questions that being human throws in your way. Am I doing the right thing with my life? Do I believe the things I was taught as a child? What do the words I live by—words like duty, honor, and country—really mean? Am I happy?

2012-01-03T01:21:00.001+02:00

“There’s no such thing as information overload — only filter failure.”
Clay Shirky

2011-12-15T16:39:00.001+02:00

"One of the signs of a damaged ego is absolute certainty."
Milton Glaser

2011-12-13T20:52:00.000+02:00

"Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.'
Iris Murdoch

2011-12-13T17:16:00.003+02:00

"Professionalism does not allow for that(transgression: n.mea) because transgression has to encompass the possibility of failure and if you are professional your instinct is not to fail, it is to repeat success."
Milton Glaser

2011-12-13T17:07:00.000+02:00

"Never have a job, because if you have a job someday someone will take it away from you and then you will be unprepared for your old age."
John Cage

2011-11-24T15:38:00.001+02:00

"It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them—and they simply don’t need you. That’s all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they’ll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on—this desperate need—and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other."
Madeleine L’Engle

2011-11-24T10:52:00.001+02:00

2011-11-23T14:17:00.000+02:00

"A narcisist is someone better looking than you are."
Gore Vidal

2011-11-22T16:55:00.001+02:00

"Having lived through some very difficult times and wondered if I was ever going to get to do a job like this, I am ever vigilant about success."
Josh Tyrangiel

2011-11-08T17:12:00.000+02:00

"Now, my experience is that most of the time, people have no idea why they’re doing what they’re doing. They have no idea, so they’re going to try to make up something that makes sense."
Clotaire Rappaille

2011-11-08T10:55:00.003+02:00

"The first time you understand, you imprint the meaning of this word; you create a mental connection that you’re going to keep using the rest of your life. And to create this mental connection, you need some emotions. Without emotion, there is no production of neurotransmitters in the brain, and you don’t create the connection. So actually every word has a mental highway. I call that a code, an unconscious code in the brain."
Clotaire Rappaille

2011-10-24T12:02:00.001+03:00

"People think perspective is a good thing: you can figure out characters arcs, you can apply a moral, you can tell it with understanding and context.
But this perspective is a misrepresentation: it's a reconstruction with meaning, and as such bears little resemblance to the event."
Charlie Kaufman

2011-10-12T12:54:00.001+03:00

"We need science and technology to dig us out of our deep economic and financial hole, even though most of us cannot separate science from superstition or technology from magic."
Peter Thiel

2011-10-11T17:17:00.001+03:00

"Karl Marx may have had it exactly backwards. He argued that classes are defined by their means of production, but it could be true that in the information age at least, classes are defined by their means of consumption."
David Brooks

2011-09-27T22:06:00.000+03:00

"I put every bit of myself, every bit of my thinking — when I was in the shower, when I was on a walk, when I was eating meals, when I was talking to people — everything I was, it just consumed me in a very good way."

Aaron Patzer

2011-09-15T16:57:00.001+03:00

"The very way we deal with reality is by distorting it."
George Vaillant

2011-09-15T16:22:00.003+03:00

"At the bottom of the pile are the unhealthiest, or “psychotic,” adaptations—like paranoia, hallucination, or megalomania—which, while they can serve to make reality tolerable for the person employing them, seem crazy to anyone else. One level up are the “immature” adaptations, which include acting out, passive aggression, hypochondria, projection, and fantasy. These aren’t as isolating as psychotic adaptations, but they impede intimacy. “Neurotic” defenses are common in “normal” people. These include intellectualization (mutating the primal stuff of life into objects of formal thought); dissociation (intense, often brief, removal from one’s feelings); and repression, which, Vaillant says, can involve “seemingly inexplicable naïveté, memory lapse, or failure to acknowledge input from a selected sense organ.” The healthiest, or “mature,” adaptations include altruism, humor, anticipation (looking ahead and planning for future discomfort), suppression (a conscious decision to postpone attention to an impulse or conflict, to be addressed in good time), and sublimation (finding outlets for feelings, like putting aggression into sport, or lust into courtship)."
/

2011-09-13T19:42:00.000+03:00

"This is a simple consequence of network math. Ideas are combinations and variations of other ideas. The more ideas you ingest, the more you are likely to produce."
Vivek Haldar

2011-08-24T10:04:00.001+03:00

"To edit oneself properly, one has to let enough time pass to forget what one was trying to say - so as to see if one actually said it."
Alain de Botton

2011-08-23T19:25:00.001+03:00

"The persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is."
Carl Jung

2011-08-23T17:24:00.001+03:00

"I find that the key to design is to question every element’s purpose. If it is not needed, remove it."
Ryan Downie

2011-08-17T15:53:00.002+03:00

'The night I fell in love with Jacob he grabbed my face in a crowded bar and said, “Drew, I need to tell you about Tupac.”'
Drew Zandonella-Stannard /

2011-08-16T22:00:00.001+03:00

"We tell people we love them when we are unprepared. When we don't mean it. When we're drunk."
Drew Zandonella-Stannard

2011-08-11T16:39:00.002+03:00

"noi nu sintem o societate de consum, sintem o societate de abtinere."
Mircea Dinescu

2011-08-08T15:20:00.002+03:00

"It's all projection. If I am deceived its my own doing. What interests me is my vision of others."
YSL

2011-07-21T18:15:00.002+03:00

"şcoala trebuie organizată ca orice se predă să fie interesant şi folositor - sau au dreptate să nu înveţe cei care nu învaţă."
Alina Mungiu

2011-07-21T14:48:00.001+03:00

'"What is your true fear?”
I must achieve my full potential. If I don’t I… fail…
“What happens if you fail?”
Something terrible…
“What happens if you fail?”
I don’t know!
“Then it should not be frightening.'
/

2011-07-20T22:27:00.000+03:00

"cele mai puternice două resorturi ale fericirii sunt dragostea împărtășită și semnificația muncii."

Adrian Stanciu

2011-07-19T16:20:00.002+03:00

"in life you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate."
JLM

2011-07-18T01:59:00.000+03:00

if you're the smartest guy in the room you're in the wrong room.

2011-06-30T16:28:00.001+03:00

"Problem is, it’s really hard to figure out what makes you happy. It’s way easier to guilt yourself into a sense of obligation which you then use to rationalize the decision to do something you don’t actually enjoy."
Alex Payne /

2011-06-30T16:23:00.002+03:00

"Carciuma mea preferata este patul."
Jiři Menzel

2011-06-22T20:27:00.001+03:00

"He explained that once your brain starts working on a problem, it doesn't stop. If you get your mind wrapped around a problem with a fair bit of time left to solve it, the brain will solve the problem subconsciously over time and one day you'll sit down to do some more work on it and the answer will be right in front of you."

Fred Wilson /

2011-06-10T17:28:00.001+03:00

via ronduldenoapte

2011-05-12T23:59:00.001+03:00

fericirea nu doarme dar sforaie.

2011-05-07T12:37:00.000+03:00

2011-05-06T01:31:00.001+03:00

before I fall apart.

2011-04-07T15:59:00.001+03:00

"Many of us felt that modern institutionalized education just packages certain lessons, classes and ideas, but in the end, what really comes in handy is what we learn along the way."

Om Malik /

2011-03-09T21:23:00.002+02:00

"Nu exista fericire, ci numai atentie. Cind esti atent, esti fericit."
Al Pacino

2011-02-04T00:53:00.002+02:00

"Baby, I got a plan
Runaway fast as you can..."
Kanye West

2011-01-27T19:24:00.000+02:00

"Il faut choisir, mourir ou mentir."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline

2011-01-10T00:49:00.000+02:00

If I were a superhero I'd be Contradiction Man.

2010-12-28T04:43:00.000+02:00

like a dead man's heartbeat.

2010-12-19T15:44:00.000+02:00

"I pull things out of him; he pulls things out of me."
MIck despre Keith sau invers

2010-12-08T22:00:00.002+02:00

most tame the beast, few embrace it.

2010-11-24T00:20:00.001+02:00

I need an ego patch.

2010-11-22T23:31:00.002+02:00

"well today is grey skies,
tommorow is tears,
you’ll have to wait til yesterday is here"
Stereohell

2010-11-04T18:34:00.003+02:00

"- Nu m-așteaptă și pe mine un suflet când ajung seara acasă…
- Ți-am mai zis, nu există suflet."
Dailycrap

2010-10-30T12:25:00.003+03:00

"cynical, sarcastic and rude when necessary"
Keith Ritchards

2010-10-19T11:12:00.001+03:00

"His morality is conflicting. It’s situational, which is the disease of the 20th century."
Matthew Weiner despre personajul lui, Don Draper

2010-10-16T21:40:00.002+03:00

"A n-o scrinti la final, iata cheia."
Marin Preda

2010-10-12T17:10:00.000+03:00

"concision demands greater work than length."
alain de botton

2010-10-10T23:29:00.000+03:00

"I had great difficulty with my own colleagues when I suggested that a lot of addiction is the result of experience … repetitive, high-emotion, high-frequency experience. But it's become clear that neuroadaptation – that is, changes in neural circuitry that help perpetuate the behavior – occurs even in the absence of drug-taking."

Howard Schaffer, Director of Addiction Research at Harvard University

2010-10-07T17:04:00.001+03:00

niciodata sa nu subestimezi pragmatsimul unei femei.

2010-09-21T12:06:00.001+03:00

"deşi ar vrea să rezolve şi această problemă cu consumul nemaiconsumând."
lepetitmouton

2010-09-20T17:11:00.000+03:00

from babysista

2010-09-20T14:49:00.001+03:00

even cowboys get the blues.

2010-09-14T01:25:00.002+03:00

"People tell you who they are but we ignore it because we want them to be who we want them to be."
Don Draper in "Mad Men"

2010-08-27T10:14:00.003+03:00

"Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi
questa morte che ci accompagna
dal mattino alla sera, insonne,
sorda, come un vecchio rimorso
o un vizio assurdo."

Cineva recita azi noapte Pavese pe Radio Cultural.

2010-08-23T15:17:00.004+03:00

“They say a clean cut heals soonest”
"East of Eden", Steinbeck

2010-08-20T12:24:00.004+03:00

"During the period he calls emerging adulthood, Arnett says that young men and women are more self-focused than at any other time of life, less certain about the future and yet also more optimistic, no matter what their economic background. This is where the “sense of possibilities” comes in, he says; they have not yet tempered their idealistic visions of what awaits."

dintr-un articol din NYtimes despre aparitia unei noi etape de dezvoltare, post-adolescenta pre-matutritate

2010-08-18T10:12:00.001+03:00

"intermitenţa este tratamentul obsesivităţii"
Andrei Plesu

2010-08-10T10:36:00.000+03:00

“hedonic adaptation,” a phenomenon in which people quickly become used to changes, great or terrible, in order to maintain a stable level of happiness.
via nytimes

2010-07-16T17:10:00.001+03:00

via picturesforsadchildren

2010-07-15T09:57:00.001+03:00

let's call it a night.

2010-07-12T11:45:00.001+03:00

"you'll never watch your life slide out of view,
and dance and drink and screw,
because there's nothing else to do."
"Common people", Pulp

2010-07-05T13:55:00.001+03:00

cu o femeie acra viata e amara.
cu o femeie dulce viata e...sarata?

2010-06-28T22:35:00.002+03:00

"I say the right things, but act the wrong way
I like it right here, but I cannot stay"
"Hard to explain", The Strokes

2010-06-24T14:47:00.001+03:00

"What the fuck is wrong with being politically correct?
It protects the worst among us, the easily offended."
Dear Coke Talk

2010-06-21T17:32:00.001+03:00

"In realitate, singurul lucru pe care mi-l doresc este sa fiu perpetuu lucid."
Razvan Radulescu

2010-06-20T14:32:00.002+03:00

"care cap la cap legate / m-au pus in dificultate"
guess who, "a doua oara"

2010-06-07T16:02:00.001+03:00

just a bunch of words.

2010-06-03T18:36:00.002+03:00

evil brother, not adapting theory and practice to each other.

2010-05-23T20:53:00.002+03:00

"Cut my wings
Shot me down I cannot fly"
Seasick Steve

2010-05-21T16:49:00.001+03:00

the roots were right.
things do fall apart.

2010-05-19T15:27:00.005+03:00

"Chiar, zisei, turnind in pahar, nu esti curioasa sa afli care e salvarea celor invinsi?"
"Ti-am spus, nu sint curioasa fiindca nu sint invinsa."
"O sa mori, zisei eu atunci, fara sa afli vreodata care e salvarea celor invinsi."

Marin Preda / "Cel mai iubit dintre pamanteni"
(cu faza asta m-am trezit in cap azi dimineata)

2010-05-18T23:03:00.000+03:00

exista doua tipuri de oameni: cei care iti spun ce fac si cei care iti spun la ce se gindesc.

2010-05-17T18:47:00.000+03:00

sentimente vs. resentimente.

2010-05-16T23:38:00.000+03:00

"la pureza está en la mezcla."
martin varsavsky /

2010-05-10T12:57:00.001+03:00

cum se cheama surogatul unui surogat?

2010-05-09T21:04:00.000+03:00

octavian belitan /
spotted@tm

2010-05-07T21:51:00.003+03:00

Bill Cosby: "Do you believe in life after death?"
Groucho Marx: "I have serious doubts about the life before death."

2010-05-07T17:28:00.001+03:00

no future including this one.

2010-05-07T10:31:00.000+03:00

slowly fade into the background.

2010-05-03T16:20:00.003+03:00

bestwashinsideout.
(sint cam intors pe dos)

2010-04-29T16:12:00.000+03:00

/ nici o masa fara peste oceanic.

2010-04-22T13:05:00.001+03:00

pickone

I'll take both.

2010-04-19T16:16:00.006+03:00

"Cynics are only idealists with awkwardly high standards."
Alain de Botton

wich reminds me of George Carlin.
the stand-up comedian meets the writer.

2010-04-19T15:42:00.002+03:00

'We focus on solving individual worries, forgetting we are just perennially anxious people, who endlessly replace one concern with another."
Alain de Botton

2010-04-19T12:17:00.000+03:00

The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to cause.

2010-04-15T22:25:00.002+03:00

steve mcqeen / king of cool

2010-04-14T17:10:00.001+03:00

"Dacă voi ajunge să mă împac cu mine însumi, aşa cum sînt, înseamnă că pe jumătate am și murit deja."
Silviu Lupescu pe blogul lui Istodor

2010-04-13T17:04:00.001+03:00

original imaage via /

2010-04-11T00:02:00.002+03:00

"Siamo diversi l’uno dall’altro, e saremo sempre più diversi in futuro.
Facciamo in realtà una grande fatica a voler essere uguali, perché così si pensa che vivere sia meno difficile. Questo è il presupposto su cui si fonda il conformismo dei prodotti, dei consumi, che ha reso indispensabili milioni di cose inutili”
Oliviero Toscani

2010-04-07T00:36:00.001+03:00

"The best way to get rid of money is to get married."
Oliviero Toscani

2010-04-06T13:56:00.001+03:00

"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth."
Lillian Hellman