Maxwell Maltz Quotes - Page 3

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

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.

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.

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

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.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

It takes 21 days to develop a habit.

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.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

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.

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.

It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.

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

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

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

Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.

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.

Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.

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

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

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

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Prescription: Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Decide what you want out of a situation. Always have something ahead of you to “look forward to” — to work for and hope for.

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