Rationalize Quotes

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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or… — Fernando Botero
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone… — Stephen Covey
Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those… — Ezra Taft Benson
We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others. — Simon Sinek
It is easy to rationalize that we don't have time to exercise. Not so. Ultimately, our improved health through exercise will provide us more time… — Joe J. Christensen
You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've… — Julius Erving
Most of us use â€˜Iâ€™m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my lifeâ€™ as a means of avoiding action.Â Did you hear God… — Francis Chan
Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct.Â Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to… — Drayton Bird
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the… — Walter Lippmann
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness. — Frederick Lenz
Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of… — Frederick Lenz
They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death. — Frederick Lenz
Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally,… — Joe Wright
I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another… — Rick Baker
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice. — Eric Hoffer
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. — Walter Darby Bannard
You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what… — Frederick Lenz
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation… — Janna Levin
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; I'll loaf." Then… — Vince Lombardi

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