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

• 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 would rather eat broken glass and drink iodine than do the dishes.

  

  Kevin Canty
  • Broken

• I love life. I love life to death.

  

  Emmanuelle Riva
  • Life
  • Death

• Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.

  

  William Thurston
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Human

• All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I think people around you should feel like you're always approachable and always open. I mean, kindness - top of the list. And I like people who seem very grounded. That's a lovely quality in a leading player.

  

  Erin Davie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Quality

• I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • People

• 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