An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis. Maxwell Maltz More Quotes by Maxwell Maltz More Quotes From Maxwell Maltz Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. Maxwell Maltz realopportunitypast 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. Maxwell Maltz laughterhappinesspeople The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth. Maxwell Maltz recognisesurpriselife-is 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. Maxwell Maltz hurtattitudepeople 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 couragehappinesslife 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. Maxwell Maltz successfulmotivationalthinking Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. Maxwell Maltz using-your-talentscyberneticsemptiness Times will change for the better when you change. Maxwell Maltz life-changingworkmotivational This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind. Maxwell Maltz battlemindwinning 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 imaginationgoalinspirational It takes 21 days to develop a habit. Maxwell Maltz habit 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 motivationallifelong We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice. Maxwell Maltz opinionvicesself-esteem 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 attitudemotivationallife 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. Maxwell Maltz goalmotivationaljobs Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. Maxwell Maltz love-yourselfself-esteeminspirational 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. Maxwell Maltz jobssportsthinking Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. Maxwell Maltz moving-onmoving-forwardmen Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience. Maxwell Maltz differencespreparationreal Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel. Maxwell Maltz desirefeelingsthinking
