“I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.” IfsSelfOpportunityPrinciplesOffersCreatingOptimismFulfillingProphecyGreat FaithGuiding PrinciplesSelf Fulfilling Prophecy Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“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?"” ThinkingSelfMotivationalAsksGrowsProcessMistakeGrowing UpEssentialsEvidenceNegativeFundamentalsErrorsPatternsTrackFulfillingProphecyLearning ProcessNegative ThinkingIncapacitySelf Fulfilling Prophecy Author:Tony Buzan
“They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy Tell me when do we stop it? Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment? Is the answer burning Korans so that we can defend Islamics?” SelfAsksAnswersHip HopRapBurningApartmentFulfillingProphecyApocalypseSelf Fulfilling Prophecy Author:Talib Kweli
“Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.” SelfCommunicationJudgmentFulfillingProphecyNonviolent CommunicationSelf Fulfilling ProphecyJudgment Of Others Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“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. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.” SelfScienceCoursesSituationEventsBehaviorErrorsDefinitionsProofProphetConceptionFulfillingProphecyReignValidityCitingSelf Fulfilling Prophecy Author:Robert K. Merton
“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.” SelfGovernmentCan DoChallengesCommonEducationOffersAdultsMathematicsPatternsMathCommon SenseTendenciesLabelsStatisticsFulfillingProphecyCompetingIdentifyingSupermarketsLabelingSelf Fulfilling ProphecyBeing Bad Author:Robert Eastaway
“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.” PeopleBelieveSelfUsedBlackWhitePoorResultsClassCuttingGroupsMiddleTaughtParticularWeaponsLowsStandardsTestsPrejudiceScoreMinoritiesMiddle ClassJustifyBlack PeopleInitiativeInferiorsFulfillingProphecyPoor PeopleInfallibleSelf Fulfilling ProphecyUnintelligentMinority GroupsBrainwash Author:Huey Newton
“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 everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.” KnowsFirstsHumansLongRealSelfRunningActionLife IsWinningHuman BeingsSimpleResultsQualityAchievePureOptimismEnthusiasmWinnerExpectingAnticipationLong RunsFulfillingProphecyBeing PositiveExpectancySelf Fulfilling ProphecyPositive Self Author:Denis Waitley
“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, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it!]” IfsBelieveSelfPlansCrossesDefeatNineBridgesAnticipationFulfillingProphecySelf Fulfilling Prophecy Author:Francis Marion Crawford
“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.” IfsStillsSelfCountryCasesStudentsSucceedLowsExpectationsBigotryFulfillingProphecySelf Fulfilling ProphecyLow Expectations Author:Tavis Smiley
“The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy” SelfHateI HateFulfillingProphecySelf Fulfilling ProphecyThings I Hate Author:Bill Maher
“Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.” BelieveSelfLife IsFulfillingProphecySelf Fulfilling Prophecy Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“The soft bigotry of low expectations” LowsExpectationsBigotrySelf Fulfilling ProphecyLow ExpectationsInner City Schools Author:Michael Gerson
“The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?” WorldSelfLawVisionHighestExpectationsWhy NotFulfillingProphecyGreat ExpectationsSelf Fulfilling Prophecy Author:Mark Victor Hansen
“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.” WayMeanSelfEnoughSpellsFulfillingProphecyCastingHoodEnough TimeCloaksSelf Fulfilling Prophecy Author:Feist