Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act. Maxwell Maltz More Quotes by Maxwell Maltz More Quotes From Maxwell Maltz Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure. Maxwell Maltz nervous-system nervous real Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind. Maxwell Maltz scourge mankind worry Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute. Maxwell Maltz real mistake mean 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. Maxwell Maltz psychology personality giving This Creative Mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure, depending upon the goals which you yourself set for it. Present it with success goals and it functions as a Success Mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and it operates just as impersonally, and just as faithfully as a Failure Mechanism. Maxwell Maltz creative goal negative 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 focus-and-concentration effort compromise Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. Maxwell Maltz cybernetics determine self Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, “standing still”. Maxwell Maltz guides guidance action Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself. Maxwell Maltz cybernetics important self-esteem Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual. Maxwell Maltz habit behavior feelings Unthaw and become more natural. Maxwell Maltz natural Happiness is the art of relaxation. Maxwell Maltz relaxation art Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do. Maxwell Maltz grows can-do trying 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 details inspirational-life play 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 effort motivational jobs You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. Maxwell Maltz imperfect-world adversity doors The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills. Maxwell Maltz ulcers climbing mountain It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap. Maxwell Maltz down-and naps lying Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves. Maxwell Maltz care emotion feelings You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. Maxwell Maltz mistake motivational inspirational
