Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.
We don't do sensible things. This is America.
I quizzed him a lot on this point and i suspect the truth was that it was like a lot of things at that age: you don't have any clear reason, you just do it. You do it because you think it might get a laugh, or because you want to see if it'll cause a stir. And when you're asked to explain afterwards, it doesn't seem to make any sense.
Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.
Then it's settled," I said. "We'll do a dream conference call." That love and rapture faltered. "Wait. How is it settled? How did we go from me declaring my love for you to me being okay with a dream?" "It's Adrian Ivashkov logic. Don't try to understand it. Just roll with it.
I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella.
Passion should always trump common sense.
Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.
Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.
When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.
Real people have trouble balancing their checkbooks, much less calculating how much they need to save for retirement; they sometimes binge on food, drink, or high-definition televisions. They are more like Homer Simpson than Mr. Spock.
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.
Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.
People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.
