“[When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996:]If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.”
“Prophecy is history unfulfilled, and history is prophecy fulfilled.”
“Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.”
“Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“She was proud of her power of prophecy, though she had not yet lived to see any of her prophecies fulfilled.”
“Lose the pessimism, Ms. Lane. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.”