Words matter. These are the best Wishful Thinking Quotes from famous people such as Mary Martin, Ted Wheeler, Chuck Palahniuk, Steven Pressfield, Gerald F. Lieberman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
Wishful thinking did not give Oregonians the bottle bill. Wishful thinking did not give the public access to beaches. Nor can we expect wishful thinking to turn around a decades-long disinvestment in our higher education system.
Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.
If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world of cold-blooded commercial response, not into the fantasyland of wishful thinking, cowardice and surrender to Resistance.
Where there is life there is wishful thinking.
The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking.
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
Suffice it to say that our over-reliance on testing is based largely on habit, wishful thinking, and leaps of faith.
Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.
The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.
Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it’s often largely imaginary – or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.
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.
To me, you can be young in your mind, in the way you think, but if your body don’t come with that, then it’s wishful thinking.
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.
As foreign attacks increase, it’s easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It’s what we read over breakfast. But when that storm hits your shores, remember this: Wishful thinking never saved a single life. The truth, however, has.
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity’s place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
