Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
...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
Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. — Brian Tracy 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
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
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
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. — Marilyn Ferguson 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
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
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
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are… — Carl Sagan 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
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
There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in… — Robert Eastaway 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
The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we… — Daniel Goleman 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
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
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
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. — Ruth Hubbard 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
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
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect… — Tavis Smiley 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
Lying is common in social life, often done for benign purposes, seldom draws severe sanctions, and many of the most notable leaders,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
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