Aaron T. Beck Quotes

If our thinking is bogged down by distorted symbolic meanings, illogical reasoning and erroneous interpretations, we become, in truth, blind and deaf.

Aaron T. Beck

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• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Listen
  • Take
  • Drive

• I think she's so cool, but I personally don't think I sound like Rihanna! But when I first released my music, I did get that comparison a lot. I never really thought about that, but it's a good thing. She's awesome.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Music
  • She

• When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • You
  • Very
  • Audition

• I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.

  

  Inara George
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Father

• You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Lead

• I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Experience
  • College
  • Liberal

• Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Mistake
  • Moment
  • Glamorous

• Rules emerge as a spontaneous order–they are found–not deliberately designed by one calculating mind. Initially constructivist institutions undergo evolutionary change adapting beyond the circumstances that gave them birth. What emerges is a form of 'social mind' that solves complex organization problems without conscious cognition.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Mind
  • Organization

• Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Life
  • Progress

• Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida eventually will die. But the model that al-Qaida has created of an asymmetric terror group that has enormous consequences in the world well beyond the size of the group, that's going to endure. Other groups are going to try to follow that model.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • World
  • Die
  • Model

• The girls show up wearing nothing. I can’t lie, I’m 16, I don’t hate it. I don’t have a girlfriend.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Girlfriend

• I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren't alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Children
  • Responsibility
  • Model

• My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Distance

• More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • People
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.

  

  Lisa Murkowski

• I couldn't be accepted into tennis school because I was too young. I had to wait a year until I was four before they'd accept me.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • School
  • Tennis

• There is surprisingly low penetration still of synthetic rubber gloves in the medical field. People are allergic to natural rubber, but the industry has been slow to switch to synthetic gloves.

  

  Kelly Evans
  • People

• I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Chinese
  • Splits
  • Sideways

• In terms of other people's perception of me, that's their business. There are people who I have never met but, for whatever reason, I am certain that these people are jack-offs. I've never met Billy Joel, but I'm absolutely convinced he's an asshole. I can't justify that opinion, that's just what I think. But my opinion about Billy Joel isn't going to affect him in the slightest. In the same way, I am sure there are people out there who are completely convinced that I am an asshole, for whatever reason. They might even feel more justified than I feel about my presumptive opinion of Billy Joel.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Opinion

• I was thinking about what it was like for my parents to have a strange kid with a hobby or a pursuit that maybe they weren't that familiar with. It must have been a strange experience - nerve-wracking, in some ways.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Parents

• I don't come to Toronto often, so when I'm there it's always special and rare which I think makes it very exciting for my fans.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Thinking
  • Fans
  • Special

• We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.

  

  Morena Baccarin
  • Earth
  • Knows
  • Fascination

• If our thinking is bogged down by distorted symbolic meanings, illogical reasoning and erroneous interpretations, we become, in truth, blind and deaf.

  

  Aaron T. Beck
  • Thinking
  • Blind
  • Reasoning