Sentence examples for rational to think from inspiring English sources

It's entirely rational to think that value goes down as edition size goes up — that if a sculpture is in an edition of six, then it will be worth less than if it were unique or in an edition of two.

It is rational to think that the test anxiety and the level of exam preparation are related.

As my son's friend Benji discovered, sometimes there are rocks in that water, and after a summer in the hospital getting his shattered leg repaired, he learned to be a bit less hyper-rational, to think of the cons as well as revel in the PROS.

Patience allows you to remain cool and rational -- to think clearly -- under stress, to take the foibles and annoying behaviors of others in stride and perhaps even find them amusing.

"It's an absolutely rational thing to think," Mr. Brooks said.

You have to let go of all that rational knowledge to think the next card is going to put you in gravy.

The rational way to think about your purchases, says V. Seenu Srinivasan, a Stanford business school professor, is to replace a product when the benefits of a new version outweigh the costs — financial and psychological — of upgrading.

There was some recent polling that showed the number of people worried about global warming increased slightly and one of the explanations was that having Bachmann and Perry in the TV debates was just causing normal, rational Americans to think that if these people think that global warming is nuts then there must actually be something to it.

Air India is one issue in India that gets perfectly rational people to think irrationally.

Satisfying the demands placed by our rational capacity to think beyond experience, the thesis arguments offer what appears to be a satisfying resting-place for explanation.

There's no rational reason to think that cheese is something you should be storing in your cabinet for a year and putting on food.