There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a… — Shimon Attie Copy Share Image
You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist […] I find that it… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
“This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
Brenna was fixing some kind of a small computronic device when he found her in her quarters. “Judd,” she said, putting down… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Frankly, I see a lot of little girls dressed in ways I think are not very appropriate. It's too much too soon,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
“Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while simultaneously listening… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“When a person believes one thing but chooses or is forced to advocate its opposite, the result is cognitive dissonance. Eventually, in… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“When there is inconsistency in belief and action (such as being violated by someone who is supposed to love you) our mind… — Rosenna Bakari Copy Share Image
“Psychologists define cognitive dissonance as “The state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs or attitudes; especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude… — Noah Lugeons Copy Share Image
“Even nature is concerned, for it leads us to choose the third as the sole consonance which may makeup for the harshness… — Jean-Philippe Rameau Copy Share Image
I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“It is not that branches of knowledge fight with one another, not poetry with anatomy, but fallacies, i.e., people. When a man… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window,… — Moby Copy Share Image
“Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I played to 20,000 people every day because people were walking on 5th Ave going to and from their jobs, and my… — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background,… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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