Quote: 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. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: 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. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: 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]
Quote: For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: 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. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: Realizing that our actions, feelings and behavior are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: 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. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. [Maxwell Maltz]
Quote: You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. [Maxwell Maltz]