Wishful thinking Quotes · Page 5

Happy thoughts or wishful thinking won't cut it. Rather, the trick is to replace negative thoughts with more balanced thoughts.

— Senora Roy

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

— Demosthenes

I could be a millionaire if I knew how to make stuff and wasn't afraid of electricity.

— Linda Sunshine

Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake…

— Willa Cather

To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time…

— Alexander Elder

“The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated…

— William Blake

“... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker”

— Benjamin Franklin

Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not…

— Anne Lamott

“You have got to have a concept of the volume around here." "Was the dream wishful thinking, or could Spirit be indestructible,…

— Phil Arnold

Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he…

— Ernest Mandel

“The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from…

— Criss Jami

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people…

— Vincent Bugliosi

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this…

— Andrew Lo

“Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened,…

— Iain Pears

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope…

— John Ortberg

“But the resurrection without the crucifixion is empty optimism, an optimism that gives credence to Freud's notion that wishful thinking is the…

— Mark Galli

Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities,…

— Gary Hustwit

“When they wish to be top dogs and become the heartbeat of all attention, some appear to be missing grit and find…

— Erik Pevernagie

“All of us want to bury our heads in the sand when taxes are due, when we have bad habits we know…

— Anonymous

“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which…

— Sigmund Freud

“It may be tempting to imagine that if the Bush administration had known the power of the Karbala story, American troops would…

— Anonymous

“We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the…

— Rachel Cohn

“I wish I were … I wish I had … I wish this never happened … I wish I could be ……

— Brittany Burgunder

“And round and round and round. Why couldn't I get past the letter? Like poison id had seeped into every image and…

— Malorie Blackman

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.

— Joseph Pilates

It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my…

— Maria V. Snyder

“Our symbols aren’t supposed to matter, but that’s wishful thinking—symbols always matter.”

— Scott Sigler

The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

— Charles Hugh Smith

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

— Douglas Coupland

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the…

— Anonymous

“In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't.”

— Emma Donoghue

“The only way you are going to die and wake up someplace else is with science, not wishful thinking.”

— Victor YatesCrayne

“This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is…

— Paul J. McAuley

“You will keep dreaming of the life of your dreams, unless you wake up and make your vision real.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“It makes you wonder if there is anything to astrology after all.’ ‘Oh, there is,’ said Susan. ‘Delusion, wishful thinking and gullibility.”

— Terry Pratchett

“I never wish for someone else’s life, as I don’t know what they are going through in real life.”

— Marion Bekoe

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of…

— Alan Watts

To me, you can be young in your mind, in the way you think, but if your body don't come with that,…

— Bernard Hopkins

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and…

— Frances Moore Lappé