J. J. Watt

It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don't need someone questioning every move that I make, asking me why I don't just relax. When there's no one asking me those types of questions... to me, it's peaceful.

American Athlete

Paul S. Kemp

The human mind has infinite capacity to rationalize, and evil characters just push that boundary a bit. Whatever they're doing, they think it makes sense to do it, and they think they have a good reason to do it. In short, they feel justified.

American Author

Drew Barrymore

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

American Actress

J. D. Vance

I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

The truth is if you can eat just a serving size, you can eat anything. But we all know how those harmless treats can call out your name all night long, and rationalizing in the middle of the night is very easy.

Brian Grazer

You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.

American Producer

Sofia Boutella

As cognitive beings, we rationalise everything. So, I think that's why nemeses are, in general, fascinating to observe, because they decide to act on feelings that we, most of the time, rationalise.

Algerian Actress

Charles Colson

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

American Lawyer

Ezra Taft Benson

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.

American Leader

Melissa Benoist

A part of my job, when I'm playing a character and approaching a role, is to rationalize and to not judge whatsoever.

Used when someone tries to justify a decision or action that others might question or doubt.

Self-justification

People may sound defensive when they rationalize, as if arguing with an unseen critic.

Defensive Speech

Often used in business to describe making systems or processes better organized.

Business Efficiency

Implies improving operations by using resources more effectively.

Resource Optimization

Used in academic contexts to mean organizing thoughts or concepts logically.

Academic Analysis

Involves explaining or analyzing something logically, even if original reasons are emotional or irrational.

Logical Interpretation

 So with each dynamic, I'm going to give three one that shows how it's already being used in the real world, so you can rationalize it a bit; one that shows it in what we consider a conventional game -- I think everything is a game, but this is more what you'd think of as a game played on a board or on a computer screen; and one of how it can be used for good,

Seth Priebatsch:...

 Gateways that will help us remove the barrier of the conscious mind to see through the biases of people and possibly even capture subconscious taste differences. And that's because we can now measure people's very first response to food before they've become conscious of it, and before they've started rationalizing why they like it or not.

What happens in your...

 You know, so we're like, if you gave a monkey a computer, that's our cortex. But we still have a lot of monkey instincts. Which we then try to rationalize as, no, it's not a monkey instinct. It’s something more important than that. But it's often just really a monkey instinct.

Elon Musk: A future...

 and other monsters and gods were created by our early ancestors to rationalize the terrifying things that they saw in the natural world but did not understand. And while we can't explain every aspect of their stories, there may be some actual science that reveals itself

The scientific origins...

 picking up on many of the same themes. In many ways, the novel follows a common narrative thread where a promising youth is seduced and corrupted by the dangers of urban life. But its social critique cuts far deeper. Raskolnikov rationalizes that his own advancement

Why should you read...

 We agree -- or we should -- that there is an external reality and ignoring it can get you hurt. Nonetheless, skepticism about truth can be tempting, because it allows us to rationalize away our own biases. When we do that, we're sort of like the guy in the movie

How to see past your own...

 Yeah. The bottom line is that terrorism has always been what we in the intelligence world would call a cover for action. Terrorism is something that provokes an emotional response that allows people to rationalize authorizing powers and programs

How we take back the...

 has a comfortable chair well good beautiful day it's a controlled environment this has happened so many times before there's nothing to be afraid of right so yeah he's trying to rationalize yeah please say you're not

Screams of the Falling PIPE...

 I didn't want to take responsibility. I blamed everybody from my parents to the system. I rationalized my decision to shoot because in the hood where I come from, it's better to be the shooter

Shaka Senghor: Why your...

 done we rationalize the unspeakable forgetting that foundations that might seem unshakably strong today could easily crumble why we sleep that our comfort is fragile the dis concerns us

Rationalize

To find reasons to explain your behavior or choices, to make them seem good or proper, when the real reason may be different.

To rearrange or adjust something so as to make it more practical or efficient.

Usage tips

To apply scientific methods and logic to something so as to make it more consistent and sensible.

Usage tips

Self-justification

Defensive Speech

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