...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy — Raymond Khoury Copy Share Image
Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Joseph Farah Copy Share Image
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
“Fear becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thinking that there is something to be avoided manifests something to avoid.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“We also know about the self-fulfilling prophecy, which tells us that if you expect the worst out of people, that’s what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
“That's what I've noticed in my experiments: almost everything in life is a self-fulfilling prophecy .Probably even believing in self-fulfilling prophecies is… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“This is a very important study because it shows that when we perceive a reality in which success is likely, that success… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one,… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. — Ruth Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Its's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely that you'll die that way--a self-fulfilling prophecy.” — suzanne young Copy Share Image
“It's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely you'll die that way---a self-fulfilling prophecy.” — Suzanne Young Copy Share Image
Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess. — Samoa Joe Copy Share Image
“To a startling extent, in other words, our vision of the future is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Change your view of the future,… — Daniel Burrus Copy Share Image
When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean… — Feist Copy Share Image