People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“To properly engage in magical thinking, I find you have to think of every possible ghastly scenario. That's the only way you… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“In supernatural horror stories, however, magical thinking is a completely different matter. Those characters contending with what seems to be the work… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The world is entirely magical, the only illusion is that it isn't...” — Lydia Andal Copy Share Image
“There’s always a good reason to berate Oprah. Her empire is built entirely on bullshit. She endorses pseudo-science, she promotes psychics, she… — Noah Lugeons Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology. — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“According to a study from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, sleep deprivation reduces our emotional intelligence, self-regard, assertiveness, sense of… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
“A vision without a plan is fantasy. A plan without a vision is mediocrity. Believing 'God will do it for you' is… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes, all of which we have just witnessed. The… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is… — Naomi janowitz Copy Share Image
“In the middle of a novel, a kind of magical thinking takes over. To clarify, the middle of the novel may not… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The notion that somehow through a trade war or protectionism or magical thinking that we're going to return to a romanticized economic… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
“This magical thinking, this idea that human and personal progress is somehow inevitable, leads to political passivity. … It has turned whole… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, many controllists suffer from magical thinking. They believe that banning guns will somehow make them safer, as though laws are all… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is a child's magical thinking. But you cannot know a place until you know the stories it tells about itself.” — Sean Wallace Copy Share Image
