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Maxwell Maltz Quotes about Life

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Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

Maxwell Maltz
Life, Motivational, Real
Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.31, Penguin

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.

Maxwell Maltz
Life, Motivational, Long
Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.25, Penguin

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.

Maxwell Maltz
Life, Motivational, Attitude
Maxwell Maltz (2002). “New Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.55, Penguin

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

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.

Maxwell Maltz
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
"Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".

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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