Quotes About Self-fulfilling

Too often our unexamined and deluded story-lines become self-fulfilling prophecies. We can always marshal any evidence we want in support of a particular view, and then believe it even if it is patently not true. This is delusion.

Sometimes, if you think you're sick, you will be.

If I say I'm rich enough times and enough people say it back to me, I gotta be rich, right?

Don't turn the truth into a lie using self-fulfilling prophecies. RJ Intindola

If people expect high inflation and raise wages to reflect the high inflation, then it becomes self-fulfilling.

Preparing for war, as was well known in other lands but perhaps not then in that one, is usually a self-fulfilling precaution.

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

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.

In good times, pessimism is a luxury; but in bad times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling and fatal 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.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

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

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

Faith is the opposite of resentment, cynicism, and negativity. Faith is always, finally, a self-fulfilling prophecy. Faith actually begins to create what it desires. Faith always recreates the good world.

People with depression, however, share a whole set of stories about the world that are highly distorted, and because their stories are self-fulfilling prophecies, they maintain and reinforce the depression.

3) many sociological behaviors are the result of self-fulfilling prophecies, so it is worth the gamble of experimentally breaking the group hypnosis of defeatism, and experimentally testing to see what the results of more hopeful scenarios might be, and;

When one begins to appreciate the roles of unconscious suggestibility and self-fulfilling prophecies in human life, this song seems as funny as the latest radioactive fall-out figures.

Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.

Do not be afraid to exaggerate the role of willpower. It is an exaggeration with a purpose. It leads to a positive self-fulfilling dynamic, and that is all you care about. See this shaping of your attitude as your most important creation in life, and never leave it to chance.

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.