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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. Mary Martin

Habit, Thinking, Start, Thoughtful, Stop

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. Thomas Sowell

Best, Words, Thinking, Worst, Others

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. Greg Gutfeld

Life, Storm, Truth, Breakfast, Thinking

The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking. Vaclav Smil

Hope, Great, Thinking, Energy, Quick

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. C. S. Lewis

Truth, Thinking, End, You, Look, Comfort

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it. Richard Dawkins

Change, Thinking, True, Will, Something

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy. Bjorn Lomborg

Thinking, Sound, Policy, Public Policy

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another. Jalal Talabani

Thinking, Reality, One Thing, Another

The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking. Yuval Noah Harari

Thinking, Unique, Reach, Beyond, Will

Wishful thinking won't make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin's worldview won't make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat. Ben Shapiro

Peace, Thinking, Partner, Matter, Real

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. Chuck Palahniuk

Death, Thinking, Belief, Real, Just, Any

My childhood was as conventional as you could get. I think I probably created 'Arcadia' with a certain amount of wishful thinking. I would have loved to have more looseness and freedom and community. Lauren Groff

Community, Freedom, Childhood, 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. Steven Pressfield

Thinking, World, You, Surrender, Want

If you say actors have a social responsibility to do things, you are right, in a way. It's a wishful decision. But if it's done out of force, I don't think it will accomplish anything. Everybody starts counting how much work they have done and see if they have done their due for the week. That is not social service. You need to go way beyond that. R. Madhavan

Work, Service, Responsibility, Decision

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. Jan Brewer

Hope, I Am, Government, Thinking, Better

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. John Ortberg

Business, Hope, People, Thinking, Church

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. Ruth Ozeki

Truth, Thinking, Think, Television, See

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. Jill Tarter

Life, Science, Thinking, Humanity, Earth

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. Bernard Hopkins

Mind, Thinking, Me, Think, Body, You

Richard M. Helms, the first director of Central Intelligence to rise from the ranks, was fond of saying that the CIA had been founded to make sure that there would never be another Pearl Harbor. Underlying this mission impossible was the wishful supposition that an America that knew everything could prevent anything. Charles McCarry

Intelligence, America, Saying, Mission

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. Andrew Lo

Science, Economics, Thinking, Reality

Where there is life there is wishful thinking. Gerald F. Lieberman

Life, Thinking, Where, Wishful Thinking

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