Communication Quote by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“That's what I've noticed in my experiments: almost everything in life is a self-fulfilling prophecy .Probably even believing in self-fulfilling prophecies is a self-fulfilling…

— A.J. Jacobs

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

— Alistair Cooke

Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like…

— Mike Krzyzewski

[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Jeannette Walls

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

— Howard Zinn

...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

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

— Ruth Hubbard

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Brian Tracy

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

It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

— Sam Walton

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

— Gloria Steinem