Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I can't rationalize the brilliance and knowledge that you have about the intricacies of the market with the crazy bullshit I see… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off." — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
DUE TO OUR FEELINGS ARISING FROM CONTACT, we think and we rationalize, conceptualize, theorize, philosophize and speculate. Because of the feeling arising… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!'… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In… — George Lee Butler Copy Share Image
Whenever any black man in america shows signs of an uncompromising attitude, against the injustices that he experiences daily, and shows no… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
“The human brain can protect us from seeing and feeling what it believes may be too uncomfortable for us to tolerate. It… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action. Did… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
