Maxwell Maltz quotes - page 3

Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right. (Maxwell Maltz)
Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy. View quote
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This is where you will win the battle in the playhouse of your mind. View quote
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When you believe you can... you can! View quote
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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. View quote
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Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves. View quote
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If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever. View quote
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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. View quote
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Happiness is the art of relaxation. View quote
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It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational. View quote
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Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. (Maxwell Maltz)
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 Creator. Every human being has access to a power greater than himself. View quote
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Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined. View quote
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Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon. View quote
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Ignore past failures and forge ahead. View quote
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Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars. View quote
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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 laughed. It is a part of their childhood that they can no longer remember. View quote
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It takes 21 days to develop a habit. View quote
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Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual. View quote
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It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist. View quote
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Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure. (Maxwell Maltz)
The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. You must see these opportunities they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute. View quote
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An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis. View quote
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