Sentences with phrase «do irrational things»

It's a scientific fact that people will do irrational things to avoid loss.

Well during this time people might feel the need to panic and begin to do irrational things with their money.

While hope is generally a good thing in every other area of life, in Forex trading it can cause you to do irrational things that destroy your trading account.

«Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs.

As we know, extreme discomfort makes humans do irrational things like confessing crimes they never committed, eating an entire pint of cookie dough ice cream at 4 am on a Tuesday, and throwing down $ 40 on one scarf just because it's «chilly» outside.

Begin hating somebody, and you will begin to do irrational things.

Bad games where the manager could do little about the outcome because players on the pitch did irrational things (and a referee had a stinker).

Not exact matches

«These are all things that people have bought in the past, and driven to completely irrational prices, not because they did anything useful or produced any money and value to society, but solely because they thought they would be able to sell them to someone else for more in the future,» he writes.

When you experience FOMO, you tend to do some incredibly irrational things.

You may RATIONAL in regards to the [irrational] ideas of «God», but that does not prevent you from being IRRATIONAL about other things, including your POLITICAL IDEOLOGY and desires for POWER airrational] ideas of «God», but that does not prevent you from being IRRATIONAL about other things, including your POLITICAL IDEOLOGY and desires for POWER aIRRATIONAL about other things, including your POLITICAL IDEOLOGY and desires for POWER and wealth.

All religions compel their adherents to believe and do strange, irrational things.

It is funny to watch atheists criticize religious people for being irrational and illogical... and then turn around and do irrational and illogical things.

It makes people do wholly irrational and self - detrimental things.

John I don't know any atheists who believe in ghosts, leprechauns, Nostradamus, faith healings, astrology, or any other irrational beliefs, but I do know plenty of Christians who do believe in such things, so I can't say that we're as prone to irrational belief as you claim.

Frankly, I worry about the mental and spiritual health of anyone who continues to support the RCC after all the absolutely heinous, irrational, unethical things it has done over the centuries to obtain and maintain power.

Of course, irrational feelings in the open can do the same thing.

While it is true that Nietzsche's work does much to restore the place of nature in the general scheme of things, it must also be said that by placing mind in a subordinate relation to a purely irrational natural world he ends up devaluing the rational character of mind in a way that is equally questionable as the idealism he was reacting against.

However, if you have no idea what you're talking about, then talking about what this thing does is irrational.

I don't talk about it a lot because rather than exploring belief and how I came to believe it, I generally just get bombarded by both atheists and Christians (primarily, though other theists have bashed me too) for being irrational and stupid and other less interesting insulting things.

That our culture and the Court have come to accept the moral liceity of both contraception and sodomy does not show that the «essence» of human sexuality and marriage have changed — indeed, what is essential to something can not change, belonging as it does to the nature of the thing — but that our prevailing sexual culture has grown ever more unnatural, irrational, immoral, and destructive of human flourishing.

The sooner we reject the irrational, the sooner we can start doing rational things.

To then pretend that things actually do have a real intention, purpose, or objective would be illogical, irrational, and delusions.

I suspect Athiest rely on rationality thusly they are good citizen's because being irrational tends to lead to you doing stupid things.

We put on a good unbeaten run, have anomalous games like this one on the rare occasion, and then the hapless Wenger reverts to type, starts making irrational decisions, doesn't listen to advice when things start going wrong, and then things get progressively worse, as other teams put their foot on the accelerator, and our wheels come off.

The other thing that is important here is I KNOW my fear is irrational - so please don't keep telling me that I should not be afraid of mice.

[5] The Cameroonian fiction writer, Makuchi, alludes to the propensity to imagine and remember this period of Cameroonian history as irrational and the freedom fighters as murders: «Are you PU murderers not going to do the same thing tomorrow... Eeeh?

«Yet the irrational thing that the kids did is part of the reason why human cultures have evolved so rapidly and so diversely.»

And people with high IQ scores can still believe and do things that are irrational and illogical — in a word, stupid (New Scientist, 30 March 2013, page 30).

«One thing science does tell us is that we can't understand it if we treat it as irrational [or] if we think of these people as a gathering of people with individual predispositions to violence,» says Clifford Stott, a social psychologist at the University of Liverpool.

Regardless of bodybuilders» irrational fear of cardiovascular exercise, they should be doing more of it because among other things, it can help jack up insulin sensitivity, even more so when combined with weightlifting.

Even though I recognized that I was being irrational, everything about him increasingly bothered me, from his mannerisms to the things he did.

Fear of things we don't understand can make us irrational and inconsiderate, which is something you should keep in mind every time you get rejected while dating with herpes.

What gets me, is that in The Grand Illusion, not only do the irrational assume that the editors and artists etc of the large companies are all those ugly, awful things I listed earlier, but the smaller players are no better.

Eli supposed the right thing to do was to take the letter home and show it to his mother, yet he dismissed the notion out of hand, because he knew this about women, or thought he did — that jealousy could make them incautious and at times irrational.

Behavioral science has many shortcomings in that it postulates that people in markets do a lot of things that are emotional and irrational.

Spiders, heights, snakes, planes, snakes on planes — there are few of us who are immune from having irrational fears about things that either can't hurt us or which are unlikely to do so.

You are allowed to enjoy your console, but don't act like everyone who is saying things is just an irrational fan boy who prefers a different console.

I have developed this irrational thing about being caught doing something crazy on video that will end up on a Vine.»

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

If we consider the process of exchange as another of Sol LeWitt's instructional pieces, then the rational (or irrational) thing to do is to continue to exchange work and ideas, if only symbolically, with him.

So she did «the most irrational thing in my professional life for sure.»

For years, at various points in the studio I've fantasized about vandalizing my own paintings with language, but it felt like an irrational, potentially self - destructive thing to do.

Even if I am fully aware of the conflicts inherent in the irrational arguments for things like God, Country, or finding a «soul mate,» I feel like any good faith investigation into these beliefs must acknowledge that the vast majority of humanity really does believe, or at least wants to believe, in romance and myths.

Do you all really still think that only thing to note about http://www.realclimatescience.org was just an irrational dweeby stupid dumb long term egotistical narcissistic agw / cc denier who just thought it was FUNNY????

This of course doesn't mean that anyone is right to pooh - pooh the whole global warming thing but it does suggest that some of its noisier supporters are overselling it and are as irrational and uninformed as those they demonize.

It's nature's way of tricking us into doing insane and irrational things to procreate with another person — probably because if we stopped to think about the repercussions of having kids, and being with the same person forever and ever, no one would ever do it.

Sometimes our kids can do or say things that are downright unacceptable and it's hard to understand the emotions that seem unwarranted or irrational.

People do things that from the outside appear extremely irrational.