Cybernetics Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Giving, Imagination, Promise

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

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

  Maxwell Maltz

  Powerful, Hypnosis, Ideas

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

  Maxwell Maltz

  Men, Imagination, Use

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

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• I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

  Poul Anderson

  Stars, Book, Writing

  "Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction", www.locusmag.com. April 1997.

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• Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Integrity, Self, Accomplishment

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.8, 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.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Jobs, Effort

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

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• Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Using Your Talents, Emptiness, Symptoms

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

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• Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Stars, Spring, Mean

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.138, Penguin

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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.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Environment, Imagine, Being True

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.28, Penguin

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

  Maxwell Maltz

  Fear, Psychological, Exposure

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

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

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Loneliness, Self

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Sports, Jobs, Thinking

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

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• To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

  Samuel Beckett

  Happy Birthday, Time, Thinking

  Samuel Beckett (1959). “Watt”, Grove Pr

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• Times will change for the better when you change.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Work, Life Changing

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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.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational Life, Play, Details

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.137, Penguin

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• Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

  Heinz von Foerster

  Names, Principles, Circularity

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

  Maxwell Maltz

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Men

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Cybernetics is NOT the banana.

  Heinz von Foerster

  Bananas

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• Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Psycho Cybernetics, Right Now, Within You

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

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• According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and so on), there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled.

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Law, Topics, Kind

  "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 37), 1968.

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• With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language, and led to numerous new methodologies and applications -- systems engineering, systems analysis, systems dynamics, and so on.

  Fritjof Capra

  Strong, Thinking, Engineering

  Fritjof Capra (1996). “The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems”, Doubleday

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• To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Change, Decision, Habit

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• You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Positive Thinking, Sun

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• If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Friendship, Love Yourself

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• You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Adversity, Imperfect World, Doors

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