“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
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
“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
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
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
“Our blind trust in the system is the product of ignorance and magical thinking,” — William Landay 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
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
Football fandom is this, it's magical thinking, it's hope over experience. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
“...ultimately, all diseases are magical diseases... ("Gas Station Carnival")” — Thomas Ligotti 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
“Sometimes I wonder if man was really meant to discover magic,” Fogg said expansively. “It doesn’t really make sense. It’s a little… — Lev Grossman 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
“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
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