Maxwell Maltz Quotes

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

Maxwell Maltz
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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A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.

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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

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Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

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Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful.

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Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.

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