"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.'"

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Paul Watzlawick

#Self Quotes #Causes Quotes #Events Quotes

“I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.”
“I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down.”
“I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds.”
“It thou seek rest in this life, how wilt thou then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace--not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.”
“That authentic experience that happens both in the artist and in the audience you can classify as a mystical experience. You can classify it as aesthetic shock, or even a psychedelic experience. Some people seek to recreate that experience through drugs. But the other way that you can do it is through art, and through spectacle. We have those experiences when we go to rock shows, or when we listen to a piece of classical music, or read a particular poem, or see a painting.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.”
“You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.”
“This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president”

Source : "36 Days that Gripped the Nation" by CNN, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2001.

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