Or is it driven by ideology and wishful thinking?

Wishful thinking could never produce working iPhones, photographs of Pluto, or atomic bombs.

It is time for Europeans to end their wishful thinking of a continental order determined by the rule of law.

To a large extent, the US crisis was actually made by the Fed, helped by the wishful thinking of the Bush administration. One main culprit was none other than Alan Greenspan, who left the current Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke, with a terrible situation.

To a large extent, the US crisis was actually made by the Fed, helped by the wishful thinking of the Bush administration.

This approach presupposes that bank assets and exposures can be accurately measured. In fact, the financial statements of mega banks are impenetrable works of fiction or wishful thinking.

In fact, the financial statements of mega banks are impenetrable works of fiction or wishful thinking.

Romney had no miracle cure, either, but he attempted to tap into voters wishful thinking bias, by promising to reduce the size of the government and cut marginal tax rates.

In such circumstances, more than wishful thinking can come into play we might have few incentives to think hard at all.

When Kellenberger cheers on the rise of a civil society supposedly determined to bring about greater respect for human rights and humanitarian law, he is mistaking his dreams for reality.

As psychologists have shown, people are susceptible to wishful thinking bias, wishing away possible future problems that they would rather not think about.

Most of the popular attention that the superstar cities theory has received merely reflects the psychology of the housing boom that we have been seeing, as well as a wishful thinking bias.

That may be wishful thinking.

That may still prove to be wishful thinking.

Heroreports is described as a campaign of positive thinking.

What's desirable isn't always doable.

But even that may be wishful thinking.

Was this wishful thinking or self fulfilling prophecy?

Tom always managed to get what he wanted.

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Wishful thinking transformed economic gains into visions of easy wealth.

These are the forerunners of the Chan we know today.

In the United States, those who argue for another stimulus package observe that it was always wishful thinking to believe that a 787 billion package could offset a 3 trillion fall in private spending.

Our thinking is flexible.

But all the talk of wondrous returns could spur what psychologists call wishful thinking bias, leading people to believe that their personal accounts will be so valuable in the future that outside saving is unnecessary.

Some of this, no doubt, is wishful thinking on the part of economically unsophisticated people.

Even Marx knew that the iron laws of economics could not be overcome by wishful thinking.

The mind is more complex.

His way of thinking is commonplace.

His way of thinking is formulaic.

But Europe indeed, civilization won t be kept safe by wishful thinking.

Abstract thinking singles out the rational, logical qualities ... Abstract feeling does the same with ... its feeling values.

I know this mindset well.

But that's not the hard part.

New reality and old thinking

Independent thinking is an underestimated factor.

Deep thinking needs to be followed by bold action.

Teaching to support critical thinking must be encouraged.

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That is typical wishful thinking among politicians.

But the status quo reflects yesterday s thinking.

You have a very logical way of thinking.

All those involved know that, in the end, only the borders of June 1967 including Jerusalem and a negotiated, smaller territorial exchange can be acceptable to both sides, however painful. Everything else is evil wishful thinking for which more innocents will continue losing their lives.

Everything else is evil wishful thinking for which more innocents will continue losing their lives.

This business plan of yours seems almost too optimistic. All I can say is I hope it's more than just wishful thinking.