Quotes About Rational Behavior

#1. Such an awful fragility of love he thought that plans are made and broken and remade in these gaps between rational behavior.

Helen Simonson

#2. Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

W. Edwards Deming

#3. Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

Warren Buffett

#4. A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. Tell me I'm not crazy, He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to advise anyone else on rational behavior.

Cora Carmack

#6. Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time.

Francis Fukuyama

#7. Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to terms with one's darker side ad one's darker energies

Kay Redfield Jamison

#8. The failure of memory, then is as much sociological as it is historical.

David Montejano

#9. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on.

Oscar De La Renta

#10. The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

C.S. Lewis

#11. When you buy bargains and they become better bargains, it is easy to start to question yourself, which can impair your judgement. Real or imagined concerns about client redemptions, employee defections can greatly influence behavior away from rational.

Seth Klarman

#12. A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information

Robert Aumann

#13. Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I've ever raced against. And I often said, I wish I could've had some of his patience. I know it would have worked for me many times.

Mario Andretti

#14. Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

Sam Trammell

#15. A lot of irrational behavior would look more rational if you could see it in the context of your whole long life.

Ann Brashares

#16. The religious guilt cycle interferes with learning and change. Rather than learning who he is as a sexual being, he measures himself against an impossible religious sexual standard and always comes up short. Absent religion, many unrestricted people can deal with their behavior in a rational manner.

Darrel Ray

#17. My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

Lorna Luft

#18. More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

Hyman G. Rickover

#19. In the world of minor lunacy, the behavior of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#20. Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

Leonid Hurwicz

#21. An opportunity is a miracle waiting to happen.

Rue Allyn

#22. 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

#23. Science has proven that sin has the power to change us for the worse. In a healthy brain, rational thought can override impulsive behavior. Not so in a brain affected by addiction. This is how Satan steals our ability to choose wisely. Addiction costs us the ability to exercise our agency.

Toni Sorenson

#24. Because Miss Jenkins believes in learned behavior instead of rational thought. What we should be taught is compassionate response.

Wen Spencer

#25. The trans-rational spiritual approach is a simple concept with wide-ranging practical implications. There are three major components involved: (1) not denying rationality, (2) pursuing the experience of a peaceful internal state, and (3) allowing that inner peace to guide behavior.

Gudjon Bergmann

#26. Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

Tony Campolo

#27. Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding.

Natsuki Takaya

#28. Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures.

Willard Gaylin

#29. Responsible: (1) Liable to be held to account for discharging one's duty; (2) Able to make moral or rational decisions on one's own and therefore answerable for one's behavior; (3) Able to be trusted or depended upon; reliable.

Erika Andersen