prophecies

Ironically, it's all the individuals that mean well that are constantly planting and reinforcing negative self-fulfilling prophecies into the minds of the poor.

It seems clear that at least some people thought that the Old Testament prophecies involved a virgin birth.

Fads are often self-fulfilling prophecies, often gaining brief popularity on sheer novelty alone; but important codebases last for decades.

All those stereotypes regardless of how much truth there is to them become self fulfilling prophecies.

So is Tumblr and Reddit, despite the overly-publicised prophecies of doom people keep tossing around.

Self-fulfilling prophecies being what they are, it's best if you think you'll succeed going in, because otherwise you're literally sabotaging yourself.

Fremen culture has been shaped by the oracles, their religion, traditions and prophecies were planted to suit the aims of the oracles.

The standards hardware engineers worked towards were based on assumptions of a new transistor density, and the assumptions invariably became self predicting prophecies.

Sometimes you can become so jaded that you manufacture self-fulfilling prophecies.

He said few things and based on his reputation people since hundreds of years take anything important that happens and bend it to fit his prophecies.

I do agree and believe most VCs successes to be self-fulfilling prophecies.

I'd just say: beware self-fulfilling prophecies and selection bias.

The same people making money spouting prophecies of "tablets will kill desktop computing" are now being paid to spew prophecies of "tablets are dead".

Lot of the work done in this industry is self-fulfilling prophecies and their time is mostly spent on fabricating/bending truths and hard facts and say "here's a statistically significant outcome therefore assholes are great leaders".

Then he goes on to explain to them how all that happened (including his crucifixion) fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament (verse 27): "And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." If you don't believe in the supernatural, then it is extremely improbable that you will believe in Jesus.