English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Paul Watzlawick 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

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

George R. R. Martin quote: "The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes..."
The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. George R. R. Martin
Mark Twain quote: "FOR EVERY GRAIN OF SAND IN OUR WORLD, THERE ARE ONE MILLION..."
FOR EVERY GRAIN OF SAND IN OUR WORLD, THERE ARE ONE MILLION STARS IN THE UNIVERSE. Mark Twain
As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy. Thomas Harris
Norman Jewison quote: "Every generation deals with the breaking down of its..."
Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film. Norman Jewison
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit. Samuel Johnson
So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries. Kim Dae Jung
Paul Goodman quote: "In America you can say anything you want - as long as it..."
In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect. Paul Goodman
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Hi kimse durumundan honut deil, ama herkes aklndan honut."
Hi kimse durumundan honut deil, ama herkes aklndan honut. Leo Tolstoy
John Quincy Adams quote: "To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so,..."
To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse. John Quincy Adams
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care. Alice Walker
Ram Dass quote: "Inspiration is God making contact with itself."
Inspiration is God making contact with itself. Ram Dass
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Jefferson quote: "The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead."
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. Thomas Jefferson
Bashar al-Assad quote: "As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed."
As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. Bashar al-Assad