Self Fulfilling Prophecy Quotes - Page 2

• ...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

  Self, Ruins, Helping

  Raymond Khoury (2006). “The Last Templar”, p.273, Penguin

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• Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Self, Doubt, Prophecy

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.881, Penguin

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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 challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Robert Eastaway

  Education, Math, Government

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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

  Opportunity, Guiding Principles, Self

  "Sir Arthur C. Clarke: 90th Birthday Reflections". Arthur C. Clarke's message delivered on his 90th birthday, www.youtube.com. 2007.

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• Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

  Aberjhani

  Meaningful, Self, Way

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Winning, Self

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• When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.

  Arnold Kling

  Government, Self, Cost

  Arnold Kling (2004). “Learning Economics”, p.296, Xlibris Corporation

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• As your lover describes you, so you are.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lovers

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Joseph Farah

  Air, Self, Hot

  Joseph Farah (2007). “Stop the Presses!: The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution”, p.151, WND Books

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• Lying is common in social life, often done for benign purposes, seldom draws severe sanctions, and many of the most notable leaders, including the late Steve Jobs, were consummate prevaricators. Told with enough persistence and conviction, what was once untrue can become true, in a self-fulfilling prophecy sort of way.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Jobs, Lying, Persistence

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.

  Vandana Shiva

  Thinking, Self, Roots

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• 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, the powerful people and institutions of society, take it all. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then we give up. Then we are 100 percent plutocracy.

  Robert Reich

  Giving Up, Powerful, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Jeannette Walls

  Optimistic, Self, Optimism

  "The optimism bias". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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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 self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Loss, Winning, Player

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interveiw, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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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 middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Cutting, White

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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 pattern, once it became the accepted story of human origins, it thereby exercised the power of a self-fulfilling prophecy. In imagining Rousseau to be right, we have become what Rousseau imagined.

  Benjamin Wiker

  Real, Men, Self

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• Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Self, Pessimism, Lanes

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• The soft bigotry of low expectations

  Michael Gerson

  Expectations, Lows, Inner City Schools

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• Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Self, Needs, Kind

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy

  Bill Maher

  Hate, Self, Prophecy

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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 prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we get the most from every mistake we make?"

  Tony Buzan

  Motivational, Growing Up, Mistake

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