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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.

    Thinking   Self   Roots  
    Source: scottlondon.com
  • Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.

  • People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  • Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.

  • The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.

    Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.142, Morgan James Publishing
  • I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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

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

  • Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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

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

    Hate   Self   Prophecy  
  • Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

    Twitter post from Oct 6, 2014
  • As your lover describes you, so you are.

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

  • 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.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.

    Self   Worry   Tasks  
  • 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.

    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • 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?

    Rap   Self   Hip Hop  
    Song: Cold Rain, Album: Gutter Rainbows
  • 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.'

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

    Self   Order   Framework  
    Ruth Hubbard, Mary Sue Henifin, Barbara Fried (1982). “Biological woman--the convenient myth: a collection of feminist essays and a comprehensive bibliography”, Schenkman Books
  • Life is self-fulfilling prophecy.

    Self   Life Is   Prophecy  
  • 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.

    Government   Self   Cost  
    Arnold Kling (2004). “Learning Economics”, p.296, Xlibris Corporation
  • 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?

    Self   Law   Expectations  
  • 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.

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

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

    Self   Needs   Kind  
    Source: www.omnivoracious.com
  • The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.

    Dream   Children   Future  
    Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.90, Ballantine Books
  • In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

    Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
  • Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

  • ...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy

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