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

Maltz, Maxwell on growth
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"To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior."

Maltz, Maxwell on habit   

"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on imagination   

"Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs."

Maltz, Maxwell on mind
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"This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind."

Maltz, Maxwell on mind
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"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on motivation   

"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on obstacles
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"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on opportunity
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"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on present
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"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."

Maltz, Maxwell on self-esteem
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"Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become"

Maltz, Maxwell on self-image
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"Realizing that our actions, feelings and behavior are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality."

Maltz, Maxwell on self-image   

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

Maltz, Maxwell on self-image
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"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on love
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"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on action
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"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on compromise   

"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."

Maltz, Maxwell on cooperation   

"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on doubt
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"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on experts
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"The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on friends and friendship
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"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on genius
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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on achievement
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"People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?"

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on humankind
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"Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on love
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"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on music
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"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on power   

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on speech
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"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on studying   

"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on ability
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"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on action
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"Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on books - reading
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"Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on thoughts and thinking
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"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on thoughts and thinking   

"The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on tragedies   

"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on trouble   

"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on truth
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"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on truth
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"Every calling is great when greatly pursued."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on work
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