Maxwell Maltz Quotes

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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…
• You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the…
• 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…
• Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you…
• 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…
• What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking.…
• 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…
• 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…
• People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal…
• Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your…
• Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after…
• We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.
• You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the…
• Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.
• To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
• When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you…
• 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…
• 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…
• It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
• It was as if personality itself had a 'face'. This non-physical face of personality seemed to be the real key to personality change. It remained…

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