A Quote by Jeannette Walls

[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Jeannette Walls

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Acts Fulfilling Optimism Prophecy Self Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

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Jeannette Walls
American - Writer
Born: April 21, 1960

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Arthur C. Clarke

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.

Robert K. Merton

The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy

Bill Maher

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.