Sentence examples for irrational product from inspiring English sources

When Alfred Sloan joined GM in 1924 as operating vice president, he inherited what he called an "irrational product line"–one that had no guiding policy for the marketing of its many brands.

If you have a thought which creates feelings of guilt or fear in regard to your decision to leave religion, simply recognize it as an irrational product of the subconscious mind and move on.

He acknowledged that Irrational Designs' products might benefit from investor scrutiny, but he is also convinced that he and his partner bring something more valuable: a fresh, experimental perspective that could help Irrational Design become a trusted brand.

The dot-com bubble was the product of irrational exhuberance.

Courtesy of the recession, and of a shift in priorities, the wait list -- that late-90's product of irrational exuberance -- is looking mighty shaky.

But if the bull market were to turn out to be the product of "irrational exuberance," the phrase Mr. Greenspan famously used in December 1996, when the Dow Jones industrial average stood at 6,300, more than 5,000 points below its peak last year of 11,600, the dangers to the economy would be considerable.

As Adam Gopnik noted in a 1999 Times review of a new edition of "The Annotated Alice": Gardner's own mind, compellingly split between a first-class skeptical intelligence (no one has written more witheringly about pseudoscience) and a heartfelt love of the fantastic and irrational, is a high product of its era.

In four studies, we examine user perceptions of wireless Internet service quality, with an aim to understand consumers' irrational choice of a dominated product over a dominant option.

The medical writer and philosopher Galen defended the Platonic account of emotions as a product of an irrational part of the soul.

Irrational beliefs are considered the product of cognitive bias in OCD, including, for example, the overestimation of threat (8), increased personal responsibility (5), and thought-action fusion (7).

Sharks have been around for about 400 million years, they are intelligent (they can be trained), and to lose them in the space of a human generation just because we wanted to assuage irrational fears and make luxury products is not something we can be proud of.