A Quote by Ruth Hubbard

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

Ruth Hubbard

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Every Experience Framework Fulfilling Orders Prophecy Provides Self Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Theory

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Ruth Hubbard
American - Scientist
Born: 1924

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

Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.

Neale Donald Walsch

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Gloria Steinem

Life is self-fulfilling prophecy.

Denis Waitley

Choosing a name is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Pipilotti Rist

[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Jeannette Walls

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Karen Marie Moning

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

Jodi Picoult

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?

Jodi Picoult

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

Brian Tracy

Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.