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You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

Maxwell Maltz

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Maxwell Maltz
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: March 10
Died: 1975
Died: April 7
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Physician
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Psychologist
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New York City
New York
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Cybernetics
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Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.
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True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.
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Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'
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Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.
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Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
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See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.
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Times will change for the better when you change.
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Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.
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When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.
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Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.
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Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.
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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
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Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.
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