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I have found that one of the commonest causes of unhappiness among my patients is that they are atte...

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Psycho-Cybernetics

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true abou...

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The New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselv...

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The New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People

Our errors, mistakes, failures, and sometimes even our humiliations, were necessary steps in the lea...

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Psycho-Cybernetics

Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the presen...

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Psycho-Cybernetics

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather th...

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Psycho-Cybernetics

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not ...

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We must have courage to bet on our ideas on the calculated risk and to act. Everyday living requir...

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The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you c...

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You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction...

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If you make friends with yourself, you’ll never be alone.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But ...

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If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act...

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Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his su...

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If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.

Times will change for the better when you change.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the ...

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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes availa...

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Our self-image strongly held essentially determines what we become.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, ...

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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listeni...

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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living r...

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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

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Maxwell Maltz

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Born: 1899-03-10

Died: 1975-04-07

Maxwell Maltz (March 10, 1889 – April 7, 1975) was an American cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics (1960), 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.More