If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make… — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
Turn wishful thinking into positive action. Those who take a proactive stance in their lives tend to have an ample supply of… — Cheryl Saban Copy Share Image
“The only thing I can tell you is when it's there, you know it. And when it ain't, no amount of wishful… — Ginny Baird Copy Share Image
Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith. — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you… — Ronald McNair Copy Share Image
The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do. — Mark Cane Copy Share Image
It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you… — Craig L. Rice Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean,… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
“At a certain point, we have to stop ‘play time,’ start ‘construction time’ and get things going, instead of getting mired down… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The paradoxical War on Terror is based on a kind of willed stupidity; the willed stupidity of wishful thinking. Only the logic… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law… — Byron York Copy Share Image
“Renunciation isn't a moral imperative or a form of self-denial. It's simply cooperation with the way things are: for moments do pass… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
“Our reality is masked as a medium for growth. What we are growing is our Will which, when aligned with a given… — Laura Knight-Jadczyk Copy Share Image
“The war on terror for which civil liberties have been curtailed and hundreds of billions of dollars spent has failed miserably. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone tells you that George Bush is not the 43rd president of the United States, they might be engaged in wishful… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It was just over thirty years ago that I had the dramatic out-of-body experience that convinced me of the reality of psychic… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
I mean, I think it's a two-way relationship: I think you should not have too much faith in your own rationality. You… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
“You will keep dreaming of the life of your dreams, unless you wake up and make your vision real.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't.” — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“The only way you are going to die and wake up someplace else is with science, not wishful thinking.” — Victor YatesCrayne Copy Share Image
The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“It makes you wonder if there is anything to astrology after all.’ ‘Oh, there is,’ said Susan. ‘Delusion, wishful thinking and gullibility.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I never wish for someone else’s life, as I don’t know what they are going through in real life.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Our symbols aren’t supposed to matter, but that’s wishful thinking—symbols always matter.” — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
