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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
Mental
Emotion
Feelings
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Imagery

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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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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
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Science has now confirmed what philosophers, mystics, and other intuitive people have long declared: every human being has been literally engineered for success by his Creator. Every human being has access to a power greater than himself.
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When you believe you can... you can!
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Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.
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Ignore past failures and forge ahead.
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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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True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.
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We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
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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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Adopt the motto: It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.
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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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You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
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Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
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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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Admit your mistakes but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward.
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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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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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