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
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
There's a kind of magical thinking about these kinds of things. Throw away those bad photos before the "magic" attaches to them,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live… — Suzanne Hayes 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
“Every day is a gift Every day is precious Every day counts Every day is filled with magic moments At the end… — Hazel Butterworth Copy Share Image
I surely don't think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance -… — Scott Spencer 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
In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line, positive thinking seems to have been confused with magical thinking. There's a notion that if you think positively… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
People who are slavish to a fantasy ideology become very lonely in the world. It's very alienating and sometimes reality is very… — Mark Ruffalo 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
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
A close friend of mine described me as a radical pragmatist. I embrace this no-nonsense distinction wholeheartedly. It is a character trait… — Kerry James Marshall 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
If you crave further confirmation that Silicon Valley is a magical place where magical thinking reigns, consider the tale of Roku, the… — Adam Lashinsky 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
The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“In my book (and this is my book!) magical thinking is the alchemy that you can use to visualize and project yourself… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
“Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.” — Bryant McGill 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
“After Princeton, the years seem like a blur, but the days seem more like rapid fire. - Donald Rumsfeld in Year of… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into.… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
In my experience, durable progress must be fashioned out of more than obscured truth, slogans, and empty promises. You do it through… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“Too many people confuse real magic with magical thinking. Real magic isn't a trick and it transforms our lives. Magical thinking is… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“It is a new day, new month, new year, but it isn't a new you. You are the same person dealing with… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almost like the military - or a… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The emotional transformation of engineering education isn’t magical thinking. Nor is it a vague abstraction or a series of touchy-feely practices. It… — David Edward Goldberg Copy Share Image
