Maxwell Maltz Quotes - Page 4

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• A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.

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  Strong, Self Esteem, Ego

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.98, Penguin

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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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  Motivational, Self, Personality

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.13, Penguin

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• Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Desire

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.78, Penguin

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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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  Giving, Imagination, Promise

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.78, Penguin

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• I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.

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  Mistake, May, Makers

  Maxwell Maltz (1971). “Power Psycho-Cybernetics for Youth: A New Dimension in Personal Freedom”

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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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  Capacity

  Maxwell Maltz (1967). “Creative Living for Today”

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• Ignore past failures and forge ahead.

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  Failure, Past, Past Failures

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.53, Penguin

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• 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 could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.

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  Motivational, Jobs, Effort

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Fear, Cybernetics, Psychological

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.88, Penguin

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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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  Motivational, Successful, Thinking

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.40, Penguin

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

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  Powerful, Hypnosis, Ideas

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.40, Penguin

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• Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, “standing still”.

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  Action, Guidance, Guides

  "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".

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• Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

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  Frustration, Past, Optimism

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• Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

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  Effort, Creative, Jam

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.56, Penguin

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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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  Inspirational, Imagination, Goal

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.31, Penguin

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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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  Motivation, Inspiration, Using Your Talents

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• This Creative Mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure, depending upon the goals which you yourself set for it. Present it with success goals and it functions as a Success Mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and it operates just as impersonally, and just as faithfully as a Failure Mechanism.

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  Goal, Creative, Negative

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.19, Penguin

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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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  Men, Imagination, Use

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.21, Penguin

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• Unthaw and become more natural.

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  Natural

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.96, Penguin

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• Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

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  Wrestling, Opportunity, Growth

  "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".

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• The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins.

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  Mistake, Past, Men

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

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  Goal, Looking Forward, Strive

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.

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  Moving, Men, Long

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• To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

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  Self, Adequate, Realistic

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Self Esteem

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.79, Penguin

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