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Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.

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
Playwright
Psychologist
Surgeon
Writer
New York City
New York
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Imagery
Mental
Emotion
Feelings

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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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Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
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Admit your mistakes but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward.
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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.
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Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
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Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.
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This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
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Times will change for the better when you change.
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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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Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.
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Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
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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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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.
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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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As soon as the error has been recognized and corrections made, it's equally important that the error be forgotten and the successful attempt remembered and dwelt upon.
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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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If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
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