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“The bubble hasn't popped yet and there's tremendous value in social media. ... But it's wishful thinking to believe that others on the 'me too' bandwagon will survive.”

Thinking Believe Values Social Media Social Media Bubbles Wishful Thinking Bandwagon

Author:Peter Fader

“Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting their good qualities." Asked if he believed all people were kind at their core, he responded, "There is no doubt whatsoever, provided you are able to arouse their inherent goodness." If that sounds like wishful thinking, well, he actually did it.”

Source: The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness

“To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.”

Thinking World Giving Lying Lost Vote Misery Admire Propaganda Satan Paradise Autobiography Wishful Thinking Incessant

Book:A Preface to Paradise Lost

Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost

“The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?”

Thinking World Want Force Cost Achievement Bother Wishful Thinking Greatest Achievement

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.”

Thinking Facts Chance Chances Are Wishful Thinking Swept Away

Book:A Gift to my Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

Source: A Gift to my Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Thinking School Interesting Adults Loser Wishful Thinking Malcontent

Author:A. A. Gill

“A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks semipopular articles, and so on. Also, there is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions. In general. these have not been found-yet the optimism has died hard and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks.”

“Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.”

Ifs Thinking States Fighting Peace Liberty Military Ready Wishful Thinking Secured Militant

Author:Jonathan M. Wainwright

“I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.”

Thinking Understanding Views Talking Deeper Point Of View Imaginary Not Talking Wishful Thinking Craziness

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“The 'Rise, Rebel, Resist' video is a reflection of the outrage the American people are feeling at the absurd hypocrisy, and overwhelming nonsense and balderdash plaguing Washington D.C. It uses a bit of satire and a bit of wishful thinking to form this powerful amalgam of imagery that nourishes and empowers the living art of the song. Our message is clear: Either these elected officials do their job and protect the rights and lives of ALL Americans or be prepared to face the consequences.”

“I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay.”

Thinking Want Home Coming Home Wishful Thinking

Author:Amanda Marshall

“We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.”

Thinking Way Happens Happenings Things Happen Manage Wishful Thinking

Author:Byron Katie

“Turn wishful thinking into positive action. Those who take a proactive stance in their lives tend to have an ample supply of joy and pleasure”

Thinking Action Joy Turns Pleasure Stance Wishful Thinking Proactive

Author:Cheryl Saban

“To search means, first, I need Being, Truth; second, I do not know where to find it; and third, an action takes place that is not based on fantasies of certainty— while at the same time a waiting takes place that is rooted not in wishful thinking but in a deep sense of urgency.”

Thinking Knows Needs Firsts Mean Action Waiting Fantasy Thirds Certainty Rooted Urgency Wishful Thinking Sense Of Urgency

Author:Jacob Needleman

“The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.”

Thinking World Inspirational Christian Form Eternal Looking Forward Escapism Wishful Thinking

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it has been for years - that's not a shock. Democratic beliefs to the contrary are probably wishful thinking.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Care Moving Law Belief Given Opinion Republican Remains Democratic Contrary Health Care Candidates Shock Public Opinion Polls Notable Obamacare Wishful Thinking Bash

Author:Byron York

“It's not "wishful" thinking.”

Thinking Attraction Law Of Attraction Wishful Thinking

Author:Rhonda Byrne

“Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!”

Thinking Rocks Assurance Wishful Thinking

Author:Adrian Rogers

“Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.”

Thinking Heart Shows Action Roots Wishful Thinking

Author:Sayyid Qutb

“Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.”

Thinking Happens Christian Knowing Creation Optimism Blind Mere New Things Wishful Thinking Blind Optimism

Author:N. T. Wright

“Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.”

Thinking Process Improvement Wishful Thinking

Book:Managing the Software Process

Source: Managing the Software Process

“To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.”

Thinking Needs Real Eye Turns Energy Regret Waste Trade Trends Wasting Time Wishful Thinking Traders

Book:The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management

Source: The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management

“Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith.”

Thinking Giving Purpose Belief Evidence Logic Creator Reactions Intense Wishful Thinking Irritation

Book:The Adding Machine

Source: The Adding Machine

“I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. I'm talking to you from a deeper basic understanding - quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery, it says that you can't have a universe without mind entering into it, the mind is actually shaping the very thing that is being perceived.”

“The article goes on later to say, "Hope is not then something for the future alone, a sort of wishful thinking aout what might be; it offers meaning for us today. Christian hope is founded on certain faith that life is not a meaningless riddle, but a mystery progressively revealed and finding the fulfillment in the redemption won by Jesus Christ and offered to all peoples."”

“A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.”

Thinking Real Goal Depends Consequence Intention Incentives Wishful Thinking Follow Through Thinking Good

Author:Tim Ferriss

“The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.”

Thinking Littles Wish Can Do Wishful Thinking

Author:Mark Cane

“Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.”

Thinking Reality One Thing Wishful Thinking

Author:Jalal Talabani

“I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.”

Thinking Mean States Government Dialogue Federal Government Arizona Wishful Thinking

Author:Jan Brewer

“Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.”

Thinking Use Problem Religion Energy Prayer Atheism Solve Have Faith Faith In God Initiative Wishful Thinking Have Faith In God

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

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