Sentences with phrase «irrational things in»

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

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

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«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.

He explained all the things beautifully and patiently, even taking some offbeat questions in his stride — be it irrational behaviour, asset allocation, behavioural science and the distillate of wisdom of gurus like Munger, Buffet, Fisher, Klermann etc..

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.

Either one recognises the priority of reason, of creative Reason that is at the beginning of all things and is the principle of all things — the priority of reason is also the priority of freedom -, or one holds the priority of the irrational, inasmuch as everything that functions on our earth and in our lives would be only accidental, marginal, an irrational result — reason would be a product of irrationality.

It's an irrational anger, expressing itself in such irrelevant things as holding me responsible for a printer's error about Paulus's birthday in the first copies off the press.

There is no such thing as legalized murder, and to assert such is to indulge in the irrational, sensationalist rhetoric which unfortunately so degrades contemporary debate on the death penalty.

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.

Are you pretending to know things just to bolster your irrational believe in supernatural beings and The Babble?

No, the one thing that separates what Jesus revealed to the world and what we see in all religious groups is one thing: indiscriminate, scandalous, shocking, outrageous, senseless, irrational, unfair, irreligious, ridiculous, absurd, offensive, infinite grace.

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

So the only thing keeping you in line is an irrational fear of what happens to you after death?

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.

They remind us that reconciliation applies to «all things, whether on earth or in heaven» (Col. 1:20) The peace of the gospel required a violent and irrational death.

These things were said in desperation and irrational rage, but they were said nonetheless.

It says a lot of things which are irrational and arbitrary that we laugh at in today's world.

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).

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.

The whole thing plays out like a Stephenie Meyer penned episode of Midsomer Murders in which each character's dramatic arc is offset by irrational actions and illogical judgements.

While Vincent's mental fragility makes him a dab hand at his job, there are points where he takes things too seriously, and his irrational actions even place Jessie and Ali in additional peril.

Really, the only thing Maniac has going for it isn't any kind of Freudian interest, nor any potential conversation about how it indicts its audience in its violence by wishing punishment on its irrational victims, nor any real originality of concept or execution.

That said, despite the substantial price supplement likely to be asked for it, the Paceman will still look like a bargain when compared with a Range Rover Evoque three - door, and in the grand scheme of things it's no more irrational a choice.

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.

Hey gang, due to my irrational loathing of all things Naruto, I called in the cavalry on this one and asked a fellow manga blogger to cover Naruto vol.

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

One thing for sure, when you consider how irrational the discussion is with people trying to justify wiping out the tax advantages of a mortgage you realize that these politicians are desperate and they will lie and steal freedom if it gets in the way of their agenda.

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.

, 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,

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.

I think the harmful «moral absolutism» is in fact coming from people with irrational beliefs that mainstream climate science must be wrong because A) it runs counter to their religious beliefs (the «God wouldn't let us screw things up» camp, who like to say how we're too small and insignificant to actually affect Earth's climate) and / or B) it runs counter to their political beliefs (in that they think environmentalism = liberalism, and that liberalism = the evil commies) and / or C) it runs counter to their fundamentalist belief in the transcendant wisdom of unregulated markets («get government out of industry's way and everything will be allright!

Let me add some sciency things below that should show how really bad bad it is: The AGU Statement on Climate Change in August 2013 uses incorrect science to justify an irrational response to the alleged human - caused global warming.

It's also irrational, since in reality we know bad things will happen to some of them.

J. Ryan Fuller: Really, the beginning, in the mid-50's when he started off with a much larger number of irrational beliefs and then changing over time, incorporating more of an emphasis on behavior and things like that.

That partner can be judged «irrational» by the other, partner B, and things break down further from there as B lashes out in return, or cuts off and withdraws.

Fortunately I've reached a point in my life where I KNOW I'm being totally irrational and my head is telling me things that simply aren't true.