Sentences with phrase «own irrationality»

«There's a cutaway in there — it's like, one of the proudest jokes I've ever written — where I'm like, «I have bouts of irrationality sometimes.»

When we dream there, we are in harmony with the irrationality of the depths.»

In his book, The Upside of Irrationality, psychologist Dan Ariely refers to the phenomenon of being too wedded to a personal philosophy as the «toothbrush theory.»

«Nonspeculative Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets: Lack of Common Knowledge of Rationality vs. Actual Irrationality.»

As a result, a lot of irrationality is unleashed into the world.

By quantifying market expectations across thousands of stock as we do, it's easy to find pockets of irrationality and identify companies that are over or undervalued.

For example, a company might have $ 5.50 per share in cash, but due to the market's irrationality... or some other temporary factor... the company is trading for... let's say... just $ 3.75... a 31 % discount to its cash backing.

However, bubbles of irrationality and bubbles of timing are fundamentally different: one is based on something real (the latter), and one is not.

This is precisely the type of behavior that is only seen during periods of extreme irrationality when financial markets are at their peak... and poised for a serious correction.

Given that its price remains lackluster and greatly disappointing, rich gallows humor has emerged as a form of therapy for those attempting to deal with the irrationality of it all.

Do financial advisors systematically add value by providing information to, and tempering the irrationalities of, individual investors?

The shareholders are sensible enough to know a good thing when they see it, and that is why there is not a lot of irrationality in the stock price (after all, Colgate grew earnings from $ 1.69 to $ 2.19 between 2007 and 2009).

Markets will rise and fall; don't panic and don't let the irrationality of the market keep you from making an investment in a good company that is reasonably priced.

This effectively shields them from investor irrationality.

I believe the due diligence dilemma — and the amplified exposure to irrationality it beckons — will be proactively, thoughtfully, and very creatively, managed by successful platforms.

«Volatility caused by money managers who speculate irrationality with huge sums will offer the true investor more chance to make intelligent investment moves.

Without that original trust, that spiritual commitment, reason is not reason at all, but the purest irrationality, a game of the will.

You can get the same physiological, and psychological benefits of prayer by meditating, exercising, singing, humming, or making human connections, without the side effects of irrationality.

So saying he is a fictional character just reflects your own irrationality.

It is not a rant against the irrationality of religion.

Rational debate is not productive with someone who had stated their irrationality.

You elevate irrationality to such a level that you can not possibly make informed decisions about matters important here on earth.

As if inconsistency, contradiction, irrationality, illogical - ness were not a day - to - day ongoing way we manage — damaged and damaging if we do or don't do.

It is a reminder of our own mortality, of our own coming end, and as such we can react with fear and irrationality when something disturbs our sense of right and wrong regarding our dead.

Of course any one can catch anyone else up in their inconsistency, contradictions, irrationality, illogic.

It's unfortunate that most of this discussion is focused on narrow minded, inflamed, and defensive irrationality.

Indeed, as post-modernity decomposes into ever more bizarre forms of irrationality, the cleansing, liberating truth of the gospel and the vision of life well lived found in the Beatitudes ought to be a compelling offer.

So much harm from a single seed of destruction calling people to value ignorance over knowledge, logic over irrationality, and delusion over reality.

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

A fifth tactic that emerges when they are pressed is a retreat to «mystery», which is really a retreat into irrationality.

Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience by Richard Landes Oxford, 520 pages, $ 35 This is a disturbing and momentous book, for modern political thinking has trouble making sense of the intrusion of irrationality.

Hitch was wonderfully rational, a logical positivist and warrior against all forms of irrationality and illogic.

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.

And no, we wouldn't by some mysterious process presumably only you and perhaps the Oracle know start believing in the Oracle if we felt we had to focus on debunking that particular font of myth and irrationality.

So you've justified living a lie to your family, yet speak about the irrationality of people with faith.

He affirmed that «one person's extra-rationality is often another person's irrationality».

This is not, however, a simple exchange of top for bottom, of reason for irrationality, of knowledge for ignorance.

Whitehead writes that the isolated impression is an artificial construct: «In fact we can never isolate such ultimate irrationalities» (PR 479).

The case for socialism derives from the irrationality of this state of affairs.

Jesus is not the God of nonsense and irrationality.

Freud denied human freedom lest it introduce irrationality into the world.

If to sophisticated thought the irrationality of bloody altars as a means of divine placation and fellowship became troublesome, the use of symbolism could come to the aid of the devout worshiper, as it has done in every other developing religion, Christianity not least of all.

Past attempts to settle the issue, apart from coercion and suppression, have been to accuse the other of irrationality.

The value of faith stems not from the irrationality of its object but from the humility that is required to see the truth which is accepted, and the courage required to act upon it.

To be sure, those who, following Kierkegaard, see here only irrationality and contradiction — for how can one reconcile God's earlier promise that Isaac would carry the covenant with God's current demand for Isaac's destruction?

The irrationality of nuclear weapons is greater than that of the old knives and cannon.

God is the ultimate limitation, and His existence is the ultimate irrationality.

In this sense God is the ultimate irrationality: the principle of limitation and the ground of rationality.

Meanwhile, however, the forces of irrationality, hatred, discrimination, and reaction are still strong — in the Vendée, among the kulaks of the Bible Belt who cling bitterly to their guns and their God, and even in the universities.

The information age is the enemy of irrationality and fairy tale myths.