Quotes About Distortion

Jumping to Conclusions. This is where you jump to painful and upsetting conclusions that aren't really supported by the facts. There are two common versions of this distortion:

Magnification and Minimization. You exaggerate the negativity in a situation and minimize the positives. I call this the "binocular trick" since magnifying is like looking through a pair of binoculars (which makes everything much bigger), and minimizing is like looking through the opposite end (which makes everything much smaller).

Definitions of Cognitive Distortions

Refer to Table 3–1 over and over again as you learn about the various methods for mood modification. When you become familiar with these ten forms of distortion, you will benefit from this knowledge all your life.

That old cartridge, Nichols and the big Indian. Distortion. They give you a general here right? They put you under. It's not that bad. I'll go willingly.

Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean them from the purpose of the things themselves -Cicero

All great movements, every vigorous impulse that a community may feel, become perverted and distorted as time passes

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

Kekejaman terburuk yang dapat menghancurkan nilai-nilai kemanusiaan adalah pengasingan. Dia dapat memutarbalikkan dan membelokkan kehidupan manusia.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Such was the extent of his power. His fortune bent reality around it. This reality included people—and their perception of the world, like mine, was also caught in the gravitational pull of Bevel's wealth and warped by it.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

If you look back through history, you'll see that God, in any form - Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed - has always wanted prosperity for everyone. There was a recognition of the need to integrate our material and spiritual lives. But that message was distorted by various leaders with their own agendas.

The vast bulk of Murdoch's news output, including the huge majority of any falsehood and distortion, is simply the spontaneous product of his highly commercialised newsrooms. It sells.

We ask how did ISIS members become radicalized? How did the shooters in El Paso or Orlando or Las Vegas become radicalized? Well, the answer very often is the Internet. The digital land of make-believe. The same pipeline that helps my children learn, helps you connect with your loved ones also poisons some adults and distorts their reality.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

why distort a past that can no longer stand up for itself?

Beer goggles are no match for atrocious lighting.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Yes, agriculture subsidies are far too generous. They need to be reined in because they cater to special interests while distorting free market competition. Yes, the farm laws are an anachronistic mess.

If you want to ruin the truth, stretch it.