Fulfilling Prophecy Quotes

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Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a… — Mike Krzyzewski
Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Jeannette Walls
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. — Ruth Hubbard
The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected. — Dennis Kucinich
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same… — Benjamin Wiker
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Arthur C. Clarke
Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create a self-fulfilling… — Tony Buzan
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true.… — Robert K. Merton
There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and… — Robert Eastaway
IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white… — Huey Newton
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: real enthusiasm for… — Denis Waitley
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success,… — Francis Marion Crawford
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn,… — Tavis Smiley
The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy — Bill Maher
Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life. — Neale Donald Walsch
The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself… — Mark Victor Hansen
If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests,… — Robert Reich
In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results… — Stephen Covey
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 necessarily in the… — Feist
My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? — Jodi Picoult

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