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When you believe you can... you can!

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Maxwell Maltz
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: March 10
Died: 1975
Died: April 7
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Physician
Playwright
Psychologist
Surgeon
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New York City
New York
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Attitude
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.
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A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.
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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.
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Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.
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The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.
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Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.
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Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.
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To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
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Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.
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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.
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A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.
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Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.
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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.
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Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
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When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.
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You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.
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One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.
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