Psycho Cybernetics Quotes

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

  Maxwell Maltz

  Change, Decision, Cybernetics

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• We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

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  Motivational, Determination, Business

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.82, Penguin

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• The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self Esteem, Keys, Behavior Change

  MAXWELL MALTZ, M.D.,F.I.C.S. (1960). “PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS”

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• Times will change for the better when you change.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Work, Life Changing

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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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• 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. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Opportunity, Destiny, Doors

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• Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Differences, Preparation

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.29, Penguin

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• 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 can change your beliefs.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Change, Power

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

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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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• Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self, Cybernetics, Determine

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• We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Life, Happiness, Courage

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• This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Winning, Mind, Battle

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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

  Self Esteem, Famous Basketball, Together

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.70, Penguin

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• Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Real, Past, Opportunity

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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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• 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.

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  Inspirational Life, Play, Details

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

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• Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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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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• 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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• 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 our own response.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Hurt, Attitude, People

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Cybernetics, Environment, Imagine

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

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• You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.102, Penguin

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• You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Cybernetics, Persons

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.12, 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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• 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.'

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Life, Self Esteem

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

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