Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this;… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat. — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they'd realize the… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but… — Democritus Copy Share Image
“...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as… — Don King Copy Share Image
“Don’t bore me with the facts, because once I’m finally forced to face them I will find myself desperately wishing that I… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
It is easy to rationalize that we don't have time to exercise. Not so. Ultimately, our improved health through exercise will provide… — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize… — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like… — Drayton Bird Copy Share Image
I'm pretty cerebral, so I can occasionally rationalize emotional pain away, but when I can't, that's when I start to feel the… — Nathan Parsons Copy Share Image
I began to rationalize marrying Will [William Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it… — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company… — Jeff Weiner Copy Share Image
I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the… — David Loy Copy Share Image
The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her,… — Alison Roberta Noble Neilans Copy Share Image
At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this,… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image