Rodrigo Santoro Quotes

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

I don't try to make any decision of the impulse of my heart. I think things through and go from there.

Never let your emotions overrule your head.

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

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

The fact that a man is driven back on feelings and instincts to justify an action or course of action which he has thought over and discussed, is good evidence that what he calls his feelings and instincts are at variance with his better judgment … and may therefore be worthless or dangerous guides in any wider matter involving the fate of his country or his fellow-countrymen.

If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.

I do not make decisions based on emotion, because it is my career and I would like to be more practical when it comes to career.

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

Italians think with their heads.

I'm always quite rational.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

My decision to return to the MLS is one that I have made with thoughtful consideration.

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

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.