Self-Fulfilling Quotes

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

Confidence, Whatever, Expect

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'
Paul Watzlawick

Made, Result, Cause

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
Jodi Picoult

Job, Library, Local

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 flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.
Feist

Mean, Enough, Times

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, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tavis Smiley

Country, Learn, Succeed

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

Experience, Theory, Prophecy

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