Sentences with phrase «idea of magical thinking»

Psychoanalysts connect folklore traditions and superstitions to the idea of magical thinking by investigating series of actions or events which are fundamentally unrelated.

Not exact matches

I think as a kid I really loved the idea of a wedding, and now, it doesn't seem as magical and exciting.

My birthday texts are known to be pages - long because of this, but I like to think it's a magical idea to celebrate a birthday the anniversary of entering this weird, wild, wonderful world.

The idea of a vehicle like this running on electricity was a mere magical thought in Verne's time.

The idea of stealing another writer's words or trying to discredit them or falsifying reviews or trying to have people write fake reviews of my work sounds crazy to me, but I am guilty of highlighting the parts of the PW review that I liked most about my most recent book; it was a mixed review bc the reviewer thought the novel had too many coincidences / was too neatly wrapped up at the end, but that's one of my signatures, I think, now that I've written three books, two published, and one in the works, so I'm actually proud of the strange kismet, sometimes magical occurrences that happen in my work because they also happen in my life, and that's what this whole post is about: about being true to oneself, which includes a moral code, a writers and human code of ethics.

It's brilliant, you wouldn't think to merge these two ideas, but it works really well and this ended up being one of my favorite levels in the game, because it felt so magical and, frankly, was beautiful to look at.

You have to build a game from the ground - up with an idea like this... It's not magical code or anything, it's just thinking a bit outside the box on the core mechanics of the game, making sure that inputs work with low latency and don't have adverse effects.»

Without further analysis, the idea that a debate will propel the cause of science is more magical thinking than scientific.

The idea that you could ever replace the rate of utilization of energy from fossil fuels, which has been estimated as consuming 400 years worth of photosynthesis per year, with a fraction of the annual photosynthetic harvest that does not impinge on food production is part of today's magical thinking, along with reducing deficits by cutting taxes while continuing to increase spending.

I think of this as «magical thinking» — the idea that everything is just somehow going to «work out,» largely based on perceived deal «goodwill,» without having to get too much into the weeds.