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This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

Maxwell Maltz

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Maxwell Maltz
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: March 10
Died: 1975
Died: April 7
Author
Physician
Playwright
Psychologist
Surgeon
Writer
New York City
New York
Mind
Playhouse
Cybernetics
Battle
Winning

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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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Live in the present. The past is gone the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.
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When you believe you can... you can!
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Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
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Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.
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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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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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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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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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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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Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.
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If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
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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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When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.
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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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You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
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We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.
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When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply passed over and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.
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