Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“But don't hunt for dissonance: There is no such thing; People dance to all tunes.” — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body. — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“It is possible that the artists are sane and the world they are painting is crazy.” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Death is dissonance for the weak minded, but a constance for the stronger. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
“The easiest way to disturb or create an element of horror is to take a positive emotion and put it in a… — R.R. Hood Copy Share Image
True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this… — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely… — Leon Festinger Copy Share Image
One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an… — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace? — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“God lives in the peaks and valleys, the jarring transitions, not in the mundane, the safe, the smooth, or the repetitive. But… — Neil Abramson Copy Share Image
We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“Did you ever hear of cognitive dissonance?” she asked. “No.” “Basically, it’s a theory that people subconsciously reinterpret their motives and actions… — Barbara A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“As she breaks the silence, the upscale abused wife begins to feel affirmed and validated. The rationalizations she once relied on to… — Susan Weitzman Copy Share Image
“Recall Aesop’s fable of the fox and the grapes. After trying in vain to reach the grapes, the fox gives up and… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Cognitive dissonance is often considered a failure of the human psyche.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
