Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

There's still an element of the self-fulfilling prophecy here, in that you're seeing people jump into a rally just because it's the end of the year and we're supposed to have a rally. I wouldn't be surprised if we're lollygagging around here until the end of the year.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. We told them that these things would happen. It's frustrating.

Sectarianism has become a self-fulfilling prophecy,

By making price predictions, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don't want to be a part of the problem.