Quotes About Dissonance

It's as if the future is coming to us faster than we are heading to it. I think it was the author William Gibson who suggested that global stocks of cognitive dissonance are currently so high they threaten to make the traditional idea of science fiction redundant. And once you reach my age, you tend to find that the individual days become really long, but the years get shorter, which only distorts your temporal perspective still further.

Network was just never the right fit with what I think is funny.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favourite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

the dissonance between the public sensitivity to genetic engineering and the actual progress being made can be seen as a signpost for the modern anti-science movement in Western culture.

Fine. Whatever. She's so unpleasant. Beautiful, sure, but it's like putting a dress on a badger. Pretty dress. Nice face. Still a badger.

Uno de ellos cantaba bajo la ventana del dormitorio; otro posado en la rama mas alta de las lilas; un tercero sobre el reborde del muro. Todos cantaban con una voz estridente, apasionada, vehemente, que parecía que iba a hacerles estallar el corazón, sin cuidarse de la áspera disonancia producida con el canto del pájaro vecino.

As Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote: "The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism." Having no cognitive dissonance in my philosophy of death is a profound comfort. This might not be true for everybody: some people do seem better able to live with cognitive dissonance than others. But it's certainly true for me. And it seems to be true for many other people.

Music was what filled the Range Rover as we drove off, although it was hardly what I recognize as music. Somebody who couldn't sing was shouting words I couldn't hear against a noise I didn't like.

Deep down inside me, a small voice says to me, something is out of tune.

There was no tune as such, just arrhythmic sequences of harsh intervals and atonalities. It was all clash and dissonance. It was the kind of music, I thought, that would be played in Hell.

Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file.

The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.

To deny the reality or logical significance of what we can never describe or understand is the crudest form of cognitive dissonance.

To deny the reality or logical significance of what we can never describe or understand is the crudest form form of cognitive dissonance.

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes.

People laughed less and grumbled more, sang less and shouted more, and the sounds they made grew louder and uglier. It became difficult to hear even the birds or the breeze, and soon everyone stopped listening for them.

The heat was so intense that my memory of it is not so much a sensation as a sound, a whine that rose to a dissonant keen with my head at its very center.

One man's quiet is another man's din.

But there's a disconnect between the eyes and the mouth. Like the eyes are saying one thing and the mouth is about to

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

If the sky was so perfect, why was the earth all wrong

was how he imagined a rose garden would smell if somebody covered it with fertilizer, doused it with gasoline, set it on fire, and then put out the flames with buckets of horse piss.

Nope," said Nudge, shaking her head. "You stand out like a fart in church." "Appropriately enough," I muttered.

She usually loved this band, but today their cheerfulness made her want to crash the car.