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Paul Watzlawick Quotes

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

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Psychologist Quotes
Category:
Austrian Psychologist Quotes
Date of Birth:
July 25, 1921
Nationality:
Austrian
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