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Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought. -- Ronnie Dunn
Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice. -- Mark McKinnon
We should exterminate all rational thought. -- William S. Burroughs
I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. -- Harold Ramis
You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water . -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious. -- David Ogilvy
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions. -- Harsha Bhogle
Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions. -- Erich Fromm
The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child. -- Esther Hicks
I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality. -- Rita Mae Brown
Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought. -- Simone Weil
Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs. -- Peter Dobereiner
Sometimes love burns so hot in your veins that it consumes all rational thought. You become a walking shell that can no longer function without your significant other whispering into your soul, telling your heart to beat. -- Teresa Mummert
All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play. -- Robert D. Maurer
So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial. -- Ossian Everett Mills
The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries. -- Robert M. Pirsig
What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven't sold out to the establishment powers that tell us what to think, what to wear, how to behave, what to believe in and what goes beyond the line of rational and irrational thought. -- Frederick Lenz
If you look into their [chimpanzees] eyes, you know you're looking into a thinking mind. They teach us that we are not the only beings with personalities, minds capable of rational thought, altruism and a sense of humor. That leads to new respect for other animals, respect for the environment and respect for all life. -- Jane Goodall
Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. -- Richard P. Feynman
Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self -- Mary Roach
Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason. -- Deepak Chopra
Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought. -- Antoni Tapies
I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. -- Ken Livingstone
It is your vibrational thoughts that give life to the goals you wish for. -- Stephen Richards
The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut. -- Keith Ablow
We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong. -- Roxane Gay
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances. -- Mariella Frostrup
Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy. -- Ilchi Lee
The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth. -- Stefan Molyneux
No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought. -- Kevin J. Anderson
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. -- Alfred North Whitehead
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought. -- Hyman G. Rickover
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought. -- Hyman G. Rickover
Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world. -- Jasper Fforde
Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world." -- Jasper Fforde
The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear capability must be reduced to zero, globally, permanently. There is no other option. -- Queen Noor of Jordan
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We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has a creative power and a vision far beyond any rational thought or cultural creation of which we are capable. -- Thomas Berry
I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't study, empiricize or think rationally myself - but I admire it in others. -- Hugh Laurie
Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning. -- Terry Pratchett
It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational. -- Maxwell Maltz
We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought. -- Sebastian Thrun
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices. -- Richard Bach
Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. -- Noam Chomsky
For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion. -- Viswanathan Anand
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created. -- Eric Kandel
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. -- George Boole
I guess law was always interesting to me because you deal with constants. I like to deal with constants, abstracts, constants and reason and ration, rational approaches to things. I don't know, I never really thought why I wanted to study law. But if you ask me whether I would do it again, absolutely. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive. -- Tom Hoover
Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down. -- Thomas Merton
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being. -- Walter Scott
This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical. -- Marcel Danesi
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself. -- Robert M. Pirsig

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