Top 1200 Rational Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

When my agent told me I had an audition for 'Friar Tuck,' I burst out laughing. It actually brought a bit of sunshine to my day. I was thinking: fat suit. I was thinking: shaving my head. It was so outlandish, such a crazy idea.

Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

When you see a space for the first time, you aren't just thinking about how to decorate it, you are thinking of architectural design, the logistics of electrical planning, etc. You need to understand all that, to give your client the best possible solutions.

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

As soon as you see what you're looking at you have a name for it. You don't see it. The whole process of your thinking is not to see. You overcome sight by thinking.

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

As a rule, whenever I hear about a demographic threat, it comes first of all from a type of thinking that says the Arabs are a threat. And this leads to thinking of transfer or that they should be killed. I am appalled by this kind of talk.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

I get so engaged when I have a problem you cannot solve that I just cannot break away from what I am doing - I keep thinking and thinking and cannot stop.

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of it, the more you can enter into that kind of thinking.

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically impossible.

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.

I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words.

To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.

I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

I am very emotional about politics in a way that makes it hard for me to articulate things in a rational fashion.

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.

We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it's not a new thing at all - the history of humanist thought is deep and inspiring.

I'm definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won't. Then three years later I will finally try it and it'll kill them. I got to give them more credit.

Whereas non-scientific (and potentially dangerous) thinking starts with a premise and then looks for things that support it, scientific thinking constantly tries to disprove itself. That alone makes all the difference in the world.

Perceived value is paramount for most diners; a feeling of satisfaction that what you've paid for is commensurate with what you've received. That is, provided your expectations are rational.

For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.

What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate.

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

I stopped thinking; I just go out, and everything is in the moment. I just stop thinking and start moving - you just gotta be you.

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

We live in an epoch where rational reasoning associated with evidence isn't universally accepted and is, in fact, in jeopardy. That worries me a lot.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

I'm a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o'clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that's when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That's when I have a bit of space for myself.

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion

If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.

I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.

Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.