Quotes About Dissonance

Mr. Arevalo was very tall and stooped when he walked, He had a woman's voice and a dog's face.

I know that what's said is often less important than the tone of voice in which the words are spoken. There is music in dialogue, mysterious harmonies and dissonances that vibrate in the body like a tuning fork.

The problem with this world is that it doesn't fit. It

How can I put this? There's a king of gap between what I think is real and what's really real. I get this feeling like some kind of little something-or-other is there, somewhere inside me... like a burglar is in the house, hiding in a wardrobe... and it comes out every once in a while and messes up whatever order or logic I've established for myself. The way a magnet can make a machine go crazy.

This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.

But that reality was like nothing I'd ever seen before: a reality that didn't seem to fit.

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

The truth, when it matches with what we want, think, or believe already, we love it. But, when it doesn't, we either hate it or ignore it, or both.

Ahora bien, es un hecho conocido que, a veces, los libros se tienen entre sí un odio mortal. Aún tratándose de libros enteramente normales, cualquiera que tenga un poco de tacto no colocará Justine junto a Heidi ni Las leyes tributarias junto a La historia interminable, aunque, naturalmente, los libros normales no pueden oponerse a eso...

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.

The beautiful must be incongruous.

It's very strange: I watch a lot of interviews with other actors that I know saying, 'Oh we had a great time; we're best buddies,' and I know for a fact that they didn't, and they actually hated each other.

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.

No estás de acuerdo con mi misión. Lo comprendo en la medida que es posible comprender a alguien con quien estoy completamente en desacuerdo.

Cognitive dissonance is a state of tension that occurs when a person holds two cognitions (ideas, attitudes, beliefs, opinions) that are psychologically inconsistent with each other, such as "Smoking is a dumb thing to do because

Dissonance is disquieting because to hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and, as Albert Camus observed, we are creatures who spend our lives trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd.

Whenever you can't balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.

How messed up is it when you feel like you belong in a place that fills you with a sense of dread?

When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.

About as musical as a landslide.

what people mean to do and what is done are two different things

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.