Self-Fulfilling Quotes

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

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

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.
Tavis Smiley

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