Quotes on Reason

Why am I here? Yes, to win titles, because then I will feel happy for the people. But the process is the reason why.

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.

I use music in the operating room to help create a healing environment for patients and staff. There is a reason that certain heart rates are healthy and certain beats of music heal and relax us.

Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.

The last reason I want to be hired is because of my gender. I want to be hired because you trust me, because of my potential, because you believe that I know basketball, and we go and we build from there.

Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.

The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.

The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

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.

I wasn't born Austrian; I wasn't born German. My roots are from Africa, and I do not have any reason for not wanting to celebrate that. Every time that I can, I like to kind of mention it, you know, just to keep people sort of knowing exactly what's going on. My French is pretty good, but I'm still African, thank you very much.

We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'

To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one's own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other.

That's the reason why I'm making albums. That's the reason why I love hip-hop: It's a challenge every time.

The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.