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As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself. -- Lauren Groff
Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences. -- Nicolas Cage
One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism. -- Damon Lindelof
In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology. -- Hortense Powdermaker
I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds. -- John Shirley
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. -- ZoÃ« Heller
There's a kind of magical thinking about these kinds of things. Throw away those bad photos before the "magic" attaches to them, so the good ones stand out. -- Gretchen Rubin
The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to conspiracy theories than it is to productive political debate. -- Wendy Kaminer
The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother's angels and djinns. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever. -- Mike Young
Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into. That looks like a magical thinking to me, but we don't really have a better idea. -- Paul Kingsnorth
In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually deploys epiphany as a metaphor. It is usually only in dramatic representations, religious iconography, and the 'magical thinking' of children that insight is compressed to a sudden blinding flash. -- David Foster Wallace
People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you. -- Nicolas Cage
Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history. -- Bryant McGill
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness. -- ZoÃ« Heller
The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature. -- Michael Shermer
Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil. -- Michel Onfray
Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking. -- Nicola Griffith
Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world. -- Emma Donoghue
The notion that somehow through a trade war or protectionism or magical thinking that we're going to return to a romanticized economic past is, in the end, going to be an illusion. And a severe disappointment to millions of decent, hard-working people. -- David Remnick
Too many people confuse real magic with magical thinking. Real magic isn't a trick and it transforms our lives. Magical thinking is denial.Real magic is what happens when we break old belief patterns and have the courage to employ the native laws of the Universe -- Jacob Nordby
Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the best foundation for later intellectual growth. Provides a way in which children get to know the world and creates possibilities for different ways of responding to it. Fosters empathy and wonder. -- Rachel Carson
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things. -- bell hooks
Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving. -- Richard Wiseman

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