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You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come out.
You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.
The movement of many people through a building can be musical, if the movement is harmonious, rational, but full of life and feeling.
Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.
Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.
People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.
Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.
Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
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.
My rational mind knows I am blessed. So many women - some of whom I've interviewed over the years - endure infertility and childlessness.
Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.
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.
What do you do when your world is falling apart? How do you hold onto the real and the rational? I think that's very relatable for people.
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
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.
In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Have rational expectations for future returns and avoid changing those expectations in response to the ephemeral noise coming from Wall Street.
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.
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
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.
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
Some of the most powerful memories are those when you are very, very young. Adult life is seen through the reflection of complex, rational thought.
Bitcoin is really a fascinating example of how human beings create value, and is not always rational... tt is not a rational currency in that case.
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.
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
I've learned over the years that 'rational discussion' accomplishes almost nothing in politics, particularly with people better educated than average.
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.
I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.
God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul
I'd like to think that maybe the average person is rational, and they realise that I'm not this crazy monster that, at times, I've been perceived to be.
The notion of humans as inherently rational beings has been not only trashed in economics, but trashed in all the best research on moral decision-making.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.