Self Fulfilling 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
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. — Marilyn Ferguson
Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Jeannette Walls
Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life — Frank Lloyd Wright
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
There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be… — Christopher Peterson
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
Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
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
Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ. — Robin Sharma
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
All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To integrate our human… — Thomas Berry
If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us… — Terence McKenna

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