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Charles Baudouin Quotes

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. . . . No matter how hard you work for

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. . . . No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors, and make success impossible.

Charles Baudouin
Fear, Long, Effort
Charles Baudouin (1945). “Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based Upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School”

An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.

Charles Baudouin
Ideas, Attention, Realizing
Charles Baudouin (2015). “Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based Upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School”, p.32, Routledge

To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.

Charles Baudouin
Long, Doubt, Trying
Charles Baudouin (1945). “Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based Upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School”

A leaf that falls into a stream (or a leaf we intentionally drop into a stream) just where the water disappears into the ground...will come out again at the next opening, because the underground stream has faithfully carried it there, though during this journey it has been beyond the reach of any outside interference. In the same way, an idea that has been introduced into our minds (or that we ourselves have intentionally introduced) will produce its effects after longer or shorter subconscious development.

Charles Baudouin
Fall, Journey, Ideas

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