Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
This battle for ‘common-sense’ gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, ‘gun control’ legislation. Good news – if you’re a crook.
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
The word ‘belief’ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.
The mantra that you’re given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it’s all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that’s the definition of spectacle.
I have never understood the reason and logic of smoking.
The reason I do television is because we all have to work and earn a living, as I have four children. It’s also a platform for me to share my knowledge and inspire the young.
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
Everything happens for a reason. I’m used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what’s right for them and their family.
Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It’s the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that’s the real reason that the relationships continue.
It’s tough when you’re No. 1. You don’t have any private life, you can’t even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.
Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
The reason I created a YouTube channel was because I can connect on a more personal level and be more detailed, within 10 minutes, of my life and what I do on a daily basis.
I had a lot of adversity that kind of tested my maturity and things I was able to learn from and were put in my way for a reason, to make me a mature person and more experienced person.
We have to see that we’re a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.
I’m a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn’t happen, it was for a reason.
If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.
Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.
Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
The reason most people get eating disorders is because they want to be skinny, but they do it stupidly, and they stop eating completely – nobody knows anything about nutrition or exercise. I think it should be a separate subject in school.
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
There’s just something about vampires that’s sexy. It’s the same reason why women go for the bad boy – you want them but you shouldn’t have them.
And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
The reason we’re so dangerous is because we’re totally harmless.
Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people ‘feel’ heard. They ‘feel’ that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can become very angry for no reason. That’s not just an emotion. That’s a demon.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
The law is reason, free from passion.
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one’s emotions, and of failure to repress the soul’s frivolity by a stern use of reason.
The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
We need to look to the future. You can’t come up with new things unless you constantly forget the past. There’s no reason to keep wearing the same pair of pants.
If you’re in a dark place, you’re there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.
I think the reason ‘Sexy Beast’ was so good was it wasn’t just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.
The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
I’m cute – and God I hate that. Because that’s not cool. I’m like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It’s the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I’m an everyday, normal girl.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
I can say that we are very clear in our mind about the responsibility of the national soldiers for the break with civilisation that was the Shoah. We are firmly convinced that this is something that will have to be handed over to generations to come… so we don’t see any reason to change our view of history.
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm – it’s elation, it’s mood swings, and you’re killing all that when you take the drug.
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
For some reason, my whole life has been, ‘You can’t do this, you can’t do that.’
