#elf

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

#assumption #been #cause #confirms #event

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. ↗

— Alec Waugh

#confident #desires #doubting #himself #his

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#beautiful #being-yourself #inspirational #beauty

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. ↗

— Simone Weil

#itself #life #mutilate #need #order

I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment. ↗

— Amy Weber

#enjoyed #entertaining #entertaining people #environment #express

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself. ↗

— Michael Welch

#because #doing #free #freeing #his

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cannot #crushed #crushing #feel #feels

All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid of my temper, get rid of my temper.' And there was only one guy who just said, 'I don't think this is related to, uh, issues. I think there has got to be something wrong.' ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#everywhere #get #got #guy #guys

If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself. ↗

— Mike Weir

#around #because #chances #chasing #had

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act. ↗

— Jack Welch

#because #far #giving #i #i can