You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.
The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off. "
I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.
The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.
It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.
The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.
The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.
They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.
I began to rationalize marrying Will [William Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse. ' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet. )
At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.
Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.
I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.
You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.