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
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Art supersedes knowledge written in books. Art is the muse. Art is magic settling upon your he[art] like dust.” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
“The world is entirely magical, the only illusion is that it isn't...” — Lydia Andal Copy Share Image
“Our blind trust in the system is the product of ignorance and magical thinking,” — William Landay 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
The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to… — Wendy Kaminer 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
Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of… — Mike Young 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
“The only fully consistent alternative to belief in God, properly understood, is some version of “materialism” or “physicalism” or (to use the… — David Bentley Hart 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
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
“I used to indulge in magical thinking when problems seemed insurmountable. Often, this focused on men, for they seemed to be the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Magical thinking might seem like nonsense to some people, but he had danced with skeletons by the light of a marigold moon,… — Seanan McGuire 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
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
“We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical… — David Watson 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
“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
“So I think that a protest,' she went on, 'like a work of dance or a work of music, is something done,… — Eugene Lim 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
“...I am realizing that intention has a lot to do with how things turn out, and accomplishments don't always have to involve… — Laura Fraser 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
“It had taken Nick most of his life and mine, but he’d finally quit drinking. After he got sober he began to… — Andrea Jarrell 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
“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
“The connection between dopamine and belief was established by experiments conducted by Peter Brugger and his colleague Christine Mohr at the University… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“major argument of this book is that Americans are not just exceptionally religious but that our dominant religion has become exceptionally literal… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology. — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was magical thinking, but I couldn’t help believing that if you were prepared for the worst, you might make it… — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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