Maxwell Maltz
Maxwell Maltz
Maxwell Maltzwas an American cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics, which was a system of ideas that he claimed could improve one's self-image. In turn, the person would lead a more successful and fulfilling life. He wrote several books, among which Psycho-Cybernetics was a long-time bestseller — influencing many subsequent self-help teachers. His orientation towards a system of ideas that would provide self-help is considered the forerunner of the now popular self-help books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth10 March 1899
CountryUnited States of America
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.
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.
Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.
Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.
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.
You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
When you believe you can... you can!
Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.