Quotes About Distortions

If the "law of the jungle" means anything, it means collaboration for the most part, with a few perceptional distortions caused by our otherwise well-functioning risk-management intuitions. Even predators end up in some type of arrangement with their prey.

Beck's three principles of cognitive therapy were: All our emotions are generated by our "cognitions," or thoughts. How we feel at any given moment is due to what we are thinking about. Depression is the constant thinking of negative thoughts. The majority of negative thoughts that cause us emotional turmoil are plain wrong or at least distortions of the truth, but we accept them without question.

There is no way to answer the systemic distortions of the press.

All taxes, except a 'lump-sum tax,' introduce distortions in the economy. But no government can impose a lump-sum tax - the same amount for everyone regardless of their income or expenditures - because it would fall heaviest on those with less income, and it would grind the poor, who might be unable to pay it at all.

Emotional wounding creates the deepest distortions in one's personal illusory reality and therefore the greatest suffering.

The ritual denunciation of the so-called 'socialist' states is replete with distortions and often outright lies.

We don't need a press like the Americans have, Ahmed. One that spews lies and distortions twenty-four hours a day in search of profits.

If one shuts one's eyes and thinks of the novel as a whole, it would seem to be a creation owning a certain looking-glass likeness to life, though of course with simplifications and distortions innumerable.

I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticisms that we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nominees should not be subjected to distortions of their record, taking things they've done out of context.

After reading it, I knew I had a serious problem. I don't drink, so that wasn't it. But everything else that characterized addiction—"stinkin' thinking"; the kind of thinking that is loaded down with circular rationalizations, distortions, and denial of reality that made you feel either you're crazy or everyone else is; repeating the same dysfunctional relationship patterns over and over and over again—I had it all.

Sometimes I think our future existence will depend on whether we can keep false information from proliferating too rapidly. If our power to verify the facts does not keep pace, then distortions of information

Casual acquaintances, co-workers, or neighbors are less likely to witness the borderline's sudden shifts in mood, self-destructive behavior, paranoid distortions, and obsessive ruminations.

As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.

That is what cognitive distortions are: a highly misleading way of thinking about yourself and the world.

Subsidies should never be a permanent feature of any market. They should be introduced only to address market failure and they should be withdrawn gradually as those distortions in the market are addressed.

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

Holy ambition has always been surrounded by distortions.

I'm not anti-Wall Street - I'm anti-distortions to free markets.

La estructura del Cerebro en su conjunto es una macro distorsión compleja de la Lattice y su actividad distorsiona a la misma Lattice que le da origen.

L'étape suivante est une infinie réaction au principe créateur qui suit la Loi Une dans une de ses distorsions primales: la liberté de volonté. Ainsi, de très, très nombreuses dimensions, en nombre infini, sont possibles.

there is a hierarchy of deceptions. Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat.

But it seems clear that an increasing majority are not being helped by traditional religions and belief systems. Many are unable to separate the truth in the old doctrines from the distortions and degradations that time has added, and since they cannot accept error, they reject the truth as well. Others are so desperate for some order that they cling rigidly to whatever belief happens to be at hand—warts and all—and become fundamentalist Christians, or Muslims, or communists.

those who worship that which is not God will inevitably produce distortions in the world. The point of "injustice" is not just that it means "wrong behavior" (for which the perpetrator would be culpable), but that it means introducing powerful rogue elements into God's world.