Quotes from Maxwell Maltz

Positive thinking" does indeed "work" when it is consistent with the individual's self-image. It literally cannot "work" when it is inconsistent with the self-image—until the self-image itself has been changed.)

1. "Do Your Worrying Before You Place Your Bet, Not After the Wheel Starts Turning

Thought is a movement of electrons and consciousness is a merely a chemical action.

create experience and control it, in the laboratory of our minds.

This becoming more aware of what is happening now, and attempting to respond only to what is happening now, has almost magical results in relieving the "jitters." The next time you feel yourself tensing up, becoming jittery and nervous—pull yourself up short and say, "What is there here and now that I should respond to? That I can do something about?

he played chess only in his mind, building up steam for the moment when he would meet the champion.

create experience and control it, in the laboratory of our minds. Both experimental and clinical psychology have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.

You can have many goals, but concentrating on just one at a time will help you accomplish far more than attempting to focus on many at once. Get the fire of desire started within being single-minded about one goal and the flame will naturally spread to the others without you forcing it. 4.

Holland, a recognized authority on teaching piano, recommends that all pianists "practice in their heads." A new composition, he says, should be first gone over in the mind.

After you've done this, you can go back into your past and find a "successful" memory, an occasion when you did something well. Again, this could be as simple as tying your shoes for the first time or writing your name in school. When it happened is irrelevant. How "big" the success was doesn't matter either. All that matters is that the memory triggers a positive, happy, feel-good experience in you right now.

Remember the fairy story "The Elves and the Shoemaker"? The shoemaker found that if he cut out the leather, and laid out the patterns before retiring, little elves came and actually put the shoes together for him while he was sleeping.

This book has been designed not merely to be read but to be experienced.

Psycho-Cybernetics does not say that man is a machine. Rather, it says that man has a machine that he uses.

The Two General Types of Servo-Mechanisms Servo-mechanisms are divided into two general types: (1) where the target, goal, or answer is known and the objective is to reach it or accomplish it, and (2) where the target or answer is not known and the objective is to discover or locate it.

It is not the child who is taught about love but the child who has experienced love that grows into a healthy, happy, well-adjusted adult.

Many people are bowled over by the chance remark of a friend, such as "You do not look so well this morning." If they are rejected or snubbed by someone, they blindly swallow the so-called fact that this means they are an inferior person. Most of us are subjected to negative suggestions every day. If our conscious mind is working and on the job, we do not have to accept them blindly. "It ain't necessarily so" is a good motto.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have experienced rather than what we have learned intellectually.

All that the forebrain does is to select the goal, trigger it into action by desire, and feed information to the automatic mechanism so that your hand continually corrects its course.

Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep

I Can See Clearly Now, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

The automatic mechanism then duplicates this successful response on future trials. It has "learned" how to respond successfully. It forgets its failures, and repeats the successful action without any further conscious thought—that is, as a habit.

In much the same way, when we set out to find a new idea, or the answer to a problem, we must assume that the answer exists already—somewhere—and set out to find it.

The Human Use of Human Beings

You can be happier," I said, "by not adding your own opinion to the facts. It is a fact that you lost $200,000. It is your opinion that you are ruined and disgraced.