Self Fulfilling Quotes
42 quotes by 42 authors
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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
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
— Jeannette Walls
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Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
— Ruth Hubbard
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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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
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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
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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
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Your "I CAN" is more important than your IQ.
— Robin Sharma
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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