Attempting Quotes - Page 19

• Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Order, Giving

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.25, Penguin

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• I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.

  Cecily McMillan

  Thinking, Fire, Scary

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Heart, Thinking, Language

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Animal, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.21, Penguin

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• What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

  Lee L Jampolsky

  What If, Who We Are, Facts

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'm sure thousands of people in the world are taking on twice what I am attempting. I'm really looking forward to it all.

  Stacey King

  People, World, Looking Forward

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• The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented. If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it.

  Ted Leo

  Loss, Desire, Identity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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