A Quote by Ted Nordhaus

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

Ted Nordhaus

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Ted Nordhaus
American - Author

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

The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.

Dennis Kucinich

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

Samoa Joe

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

Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Joseph Farah

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.'

Paul Watzlawick

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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

Karen Marie Moning

I figure it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy; if I make a successful arena rock record, I'll wind up playing arenas! I wouldn't mind being back in that kind of venue because of the kinds of things you can do with production. You can make your shows more interesting, which would be fun to do.