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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.

Maxwell Maltz

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.

Maxwell Maltz

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.

Maxwell Maltz

Maxwell Maltz

Maxwell Maltz

Born: March 10, 1889

Died: April 7, 1975 (aged 86)

Bio: Maxwell Maltz was an American cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics, which was a system of ideas that he claimed could improve one's self-image. In turn, the person would lead a more successful and fulfilling life.

Known for:

Psycho-Cybernetics (1960)
The new psycho-cybernetics
Psicocibernetica
The Magic Power of Self-Image Psychology (1964)
Zero Resistance Selling

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