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
Maxwell Maltz quotes about
- confusion
- anxiety
- feelings
- automatic
- commonly
- fail
- goal
- imagination
- mechanism
- sets
- works
- natural
- using-your-talents
- cybernetics
- emptiness
- psycho-cybernetics
- right-now
- environment
- imagine
- moving-on
- moving-forward
- men
- determine
- law-of-attraction
- enthusiasm-for-life
- needs
- behavior-change
- decision
- efforts
- either
The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins.
Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.
Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful.
Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.
Develop an enthusiasm for life, create a need for more life, and you will receive more life.
True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
Times will change for the better when you change.
One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
Life is a series of problems.
You are not your mistakes. Just because you have done something stupid does not make you stupid.
The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.