When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism:… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can… — Tony Buzan 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
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
IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system. — Gloria Steinem 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
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
The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life… — Robert Anthony 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
“When the rush of the weak sweeps over those that strive to be strong, its destruction. The commonplaces of moral judgment become… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then… — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. — Ruth Hubbard Copy Share Image
“When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
