Rationalize Quotes

Rationalize Quote of the day

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 even justify it.

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to rationalize their choices.

I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different.

...we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.

We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.

Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

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 you're a coward.

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.

I began to rationalize marrying Will [William Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet.)

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

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 fire inside take over and somehow manage to power through.

I rationalize shop. I buy a dress because I need change for gum.

If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.

As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

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.

The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless?

The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

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 to take the downside.

I can't rationalize the brilliance and knowledge that you have about the intricacies of the market with the crazy bullshit I see you do each night.

Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.

You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.

The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off."

You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.

When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.

Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.

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 existence.

Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.

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, they come about just by feeling.

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Only few people enjoy life in better way rest of the made just to facilitate those few.

I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else.

You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.