Maxwell Maltz Quotes

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Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

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Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out.

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One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

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When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

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Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

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Get into the habit of laughing; too many of us have forgotten how to laugh. As people grow older, they sometimes forget that they ever laughed. It is a part of their childhood that they can no longer remember.

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Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

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You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

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Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.

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The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.

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We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.

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One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

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Science has now confirmed what philosophers, mystics, and other intuitive people have long declared: every human being has been literally "engineered for success" by his Creator. Every human being has access to a power greater than himself.

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It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational.

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Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

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Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

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Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don't worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five minutes from now. Your creative mechanism will react appropriately in the 'now' if you pay attention to what is happening now.

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An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

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Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'

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Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

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Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

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Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile.

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A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

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Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and 'natural' as opposed to self-conscious and studied.

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There is within each of us a "life-instinct," which is forever working toward health, happiness, and all that makes for more life for the individual.

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Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience.

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