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I've always been attracted to Pertwee's portrayal of the Doctor as dashing man-of-science, charming, sceptical, and rational.
Alastair Reynolds
Doctor
Charming
Rational
Sceptical
Attracted
Always
Been
Portrayal
I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
Albert Ellis
Myself
Behavior
Later
Rational
Emotive
Term
Call
Used
Therapist
Now
Started
Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
Anna Freud
Me
Women
Girl
Analytic
Papa
Would
More
Rational
He
Clear
Like
Hours
Know
Makes
Always
His
Than
Gets
Much
Lucid
I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.
Annabelle Selldorf
Beautiful
You
Quality
Space
Calm
Design
Kind
Worthwhile
Clarity
Logic
Seek
Perceive
Rather
Rational
Make
Than
Move
Spaces
Confrontational
Certain
It is not rational, never mind 'appropriate,' to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits.
Antonin Scalia
Environmental
Health
Benefits
Mind
Few
Appropriate
Costs
Economic
Rational
Never
Return
Impose
Dollars
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
Arthur Keith
Work
Nature
Must
See
Mental
Give
Adopt
Rational
Take
Existence
Account
Modern
Human
Explain
Explanation
Human Existence
Communities
Theory
The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Work
You
Business
Resume
Post
Simple
Internet
Job
College
Enough
Way
Jobs
Would
Find
Seem
Rational
Could
Supposed
Make
Educated
Managers
Experienced
Them
Your
Companies
Whole
Search
Searching
Professionals
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
Barry Ritholtz
Key
Random
Understanding
Indeed
Outcomes
Rational
Investing
Part
Revert
End
Intelligent
Mean
Meaning
Eventually
I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.
Bill Ackman
You
Decision
Purely
About
Something
Rational
Emotion
Emotional
Facts
Investing
Investments
Making
Affect
Just
Where
Decision-Making
Your
Why do we fully tax some kinds of income from capital, like interest and dividends; partially tax other kinds like capital gains; defer tax on other kinds, like IRAs; and impose no tax at all on still other types of capital income, like interest on municipal bonds? This simply is not rational. These distinctions don't have any inherent logic.
Bill Bradley
Other
Defer
Types
Distinctions
Logic
Kinds
Some
Rational
Dividends
Simply
Like
Still
Impose
Any
Tax
Interest
Gains
Capital
Capital Gains
Inherent
Fully
Income
Why
Municipal
Bonds
I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.
Bill Callahan
Work
Music
Made
Calm
Thinking
Way
About
Rational
Without
Doing
Lot
Did
Stopping
Deeper
Tone
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
Bill Forsyth
Business
People
Purely
Rational
Emotional
Instead
Like
Making
Very
Authority
Movie
Movie Business
Decisions
Interesting
Much
I tend to be cautious and rational, prone to keep everything under control.
Cai Guo-Qiang
Control
Everything
Prone
Rational
Tend
Cautious
Keep
I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.
Carlos Ghosn
Logical
Decision
Three
Somebody
Design
Think
Analyzing
Approve
Gifted
See
More
Rational
Taken
Pros
Make
Sure
Because
Am
Years
Just
After
Who
Now
Cons
Four
Designs
It is my earnest hope that all parties across the political spectrum will bear Hong Kong's long-term interests in mind, apply their political wisdom, and seek a consensus through open and rational communication with people of different views.
Carrie Lam
Wisdom
Hope
Communication
People
Political
Mind
Will
Earnest
Seek
Bear
Rational
Through
Open
Long-Term
Parties
Kong
Political Spectrum
Different
Interests
Across
Views
Apply
Consensus
Spectrum
It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
Carrie Snow
Life
Technology
Own
Control
Our
Guide
Hopes
More
Only
Rational
Fact
Doing
Than
Any
In Fact
Which
Social
Use
Social Life
Appalling
Keep
Desirable
Imagine
I love Richard Thaler's 'Quasi Rational Economics.' A collection of some of his most interesting and inventive essays, the real foundation of behavioral economics.
Cass Sunstein
Love
Economics
Collection
Some
Inventive
Rational
Most
Real
His
Behavioral
Essays
Interesting
Richard
Foundation
Rational anxiety is when you're aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I'm going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I'm leaving CVS, and there's a car behind me, and I'm wondering if he's following me home.
Charlamagne tha God
Home
Me
You
People
Anxiety
Car
Following
Rational
Host
He
Feel
Like
Know
Talk
Leaving
Source
Irrational
Anxious
Wondering
Going
Behind
Your
Show
Radio
Award
Aware
Why
Millions
Millions Of People
Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.
Charles Hodge
Class
World
Men
Every
Solution
Only
Rational
Fact
Part
Sin
Undeniable
Manifested
Ages
Deep
Original
Original Sin
Universal
Early
When an entrant competitor attacks the low end of any market, the rational reaction of the incumbent firms is to abandon rather than defend it - because the low end is the least profitable of their possible investments.
Clayton M. Christensen
Competitor
Market
Incumbent
Abandon
Possible
Rather
Rational
Attacks
Investments
Reaction
Because
Least
End
Than
Any
Low
Profitable
Defend
To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.
Colin Firth
You
Rational
Bothered
Go
Want
Wherever
Thing
While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
Dan Ariely
People
Revenge
Assuming
Intuitive
Somehow
Rational
Individuals
Miss
Between
Underestimate
Understand
Motivation
Suspect
While
Companies
Level
When the U.S. claims the right to invade any country unilaterally and then defines a country like Iran or North Korea as 'evil,' then it is a rational response for these countries to develop nuclear weapons as the only military deterrent to invasion. We create what we most fear.
Dean Ornish
Fear
Evil
Country
Military
Defines
Claims
Response
Weapons
Invade
Invasion
Only
Deterrent
Rational
Develop
Countries
Like
Most
Korea
Iran
North
North Korea
Any
Then
Create
Nuclear
Right
Nuclear Weapons
I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
Life
Me
Waiting
Anxiety
My Life
Nothing
Live
Corner
Giant
Worthy
Minute
About
Rational
Step
Crush
Around
Am
Off
Curb
Just
Refuse
Bus
My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.
Dee Snider
Life
Family
Approach
Our
Out
Physical
Pretty
Rational
Lifestyle
Day-To-Day
Performing
Deal
Sound
Very
Quiet
Different
Ordinary
Them
Things
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.
Donald Miller
First
Reading
Incredibly
Boring
Rational
Tend
Write
Idea
Come
Like
Make
Off
Very
Justification
Reasons
Compelling
Right
Cognitive
Here
Drafts
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