Psycho Cybernetics Quotes:

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

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Decision, Habit, Behavior, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

- Maxwell Maltz

source: Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.82, Penguin

topic: Business, Real, Goal, Obstacle In Life, Cybernetics

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

- Maxwell Maltz

source: MAXWELL MALTZ, M.D.,F.I.C.S. (1960). “PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS”

topic: Self Esteem, Keys, Personality, Personality Types, Human Behavior

Times will change for the better when you change.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Motivational, Life Changing, Work, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Motivational, Jobs, Effort, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Opportunity, Destiny, Doors, Opportunity Knocking, Opportunity Knocks

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Motivational, Real, Thinking, Cybernetics, Nervous System

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

- Maxwell Maltz

source: Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.40, Penguin

topic: Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

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

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Moving On, Moving Forward, Men, Just Keep Moving Forward, Inspirational Moving Forward

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

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Self, Determine, Psycho Cybernetics

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Life, Happiness, Courage, Acts Of Courage, Be Courageous

This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Winning, Mind, Battle, Psycho Cybernetics

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

- Maxwell Maltz

source: Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.70, Penguin

topic: Self Esteem, Together, Habit, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Real, Mistake, Mean, Psycho Cybernetics

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

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Love Yourself, Inspiring Friends, Love Your Self

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Inspirational Life, Play, Outcomes, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Inspirational, Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Self Confidence

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.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Men, Imagination, Use, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

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.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Stars, Spring, Mean, Lack Of Self Confidence, Cybernetics

We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Hurt, Attitude, People, Psycho Cybernetics, Injured

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

- Maxwell Maltz

source: Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.28, Penguin

topic: Environment, Imagine, Being True, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

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

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Inspirational, Persons, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

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.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Goal, Using Your Talents, Cybernetics

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Self, Hands, Phrases, Psycho Cybernetics

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

- Maxwell Maltz

source: Maxwell Maltz, Kelli M. Gary (1983). “PRINCIPLES CRE LVG”, Pocket

topic: Self, Games, Names, Psycho Cybernetics

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Integrity, Self, Accomplishment, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and ‘natural’ as opposed to self-conscious and studied.

- Maxwell Maltz

source: Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.56, Penguin

topic: Sports, Jobs, Thinking, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

- Andre Malraux

source: Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Successful Person, Cybernetics

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

- Bruce Barton

source: Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Lifetime Achievement, Cybernetics

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Inspirational, Imagination, Goal, Power Of Imagination, Cybernetics

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Motivational, Positive Thinking, Sun, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Success, Christian, Ideas, Taking Risks, Successful Person

Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Wrestling, Opportunity, Growth, Life Crisis, Psycho Cybernetics

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Determine, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Giving, Personality, Feelings, Psycho Cybernetics

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Fear, Psychological, Exposure, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

- Maxwell Maltz

source: Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.56, Penguin

topic: Effort, Creative, Jam, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Powerful, Hypnosis, Ideas, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

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.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Motivational, Winning, Done, Individual Success, Resourceful

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Thinking, Feelings, Desire, Cybernetics, Cooperative Learning

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Adversity, Doors, World, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Self Esteem, Important, Life Is, Psycho Cybernetics

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Loneliness, Real, Self, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Time, Thinking, Young, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday, Cybernetics

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to...to work for and hope for.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Life, Motivational, Goal, Psycho Cybernetics

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.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Giving, Imagination, Promise, Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Self Esteem, Moving, Opportunity, Deserving It, Psycho Cybernetics