Wishful Thinking - Reverse Wishful Thinking

Reverse Wishful Thinking

Reverse wishful thinking is where someone assumes that because something is bad it is likely to happen. This may be to fulfill a prediction made by the speaker or because they are generally pessimistic.

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Famous quotes containing the words reverse and/or thinking:

    “Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you’re going to fly an airplane. Most things are just the reverse from what people think. The higher you are the safer you are. The Earth down there, that, that’s your enemy because once you hit that, boy, you splatter.”
    —Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)

    “All the new thinking is about loss.
    In this it resembles all the old thinking.”
    —Robert Hass (b. 1941)