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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Stars   Spring   Mean  
    Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.138, Penguin
  • According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and so on), there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled.

    "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 37), 1968.
  • This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

    Winning   Mind   Battle  
  • The Frenchman Jean-PaulSartre ... had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, immense in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.

    Evil   Mind   Machines  
  • The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,' from the Greek (Kybernetes = navigator or steersman), subsequently adopted as cybernetics by Norbert Weiner for the field of control and communication theory.

  • 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.

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

    "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".
  • The aliens on this planet are also attempting to clone or replicate the human form artificially. Their original form, being humanoid, cannot pass the field that was established around the Earth. But if they can clone or cybernetically change their forms, it may help their designs. This is why virtual reality, cybernetics, cloning, and nanotechnology are in vogue today.

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

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

    Self   Games   Names  
    Maxwell Maltz, Kelli M. Gary (1983). “PRINCIPLES CRE LVG”, Pocket
  • With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language, and led to numerous new methodologies and applications -- systems engineering, systems analysis, systems dynamics, and so on.

    Fritjof Capra (1996). “The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems”, Doubleday
  • 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 (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.145, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

  • Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

    Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.8, Penguin
  • Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

    Real   Loneliness   Self  
    Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.138, Simon and Schuster
  • Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

    Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.137, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.82, Penguin
  • To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

  • Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

    Guy Davenport (1997). “The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays”, p.93, David R. Godine Publisher
  • Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

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

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

    Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.70, Penguin
  • You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

    Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.102, Penguin
  • Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

    Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.40, Penguin
  • I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

    Stars   Book   Writing  
    "Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction", www.locusmag.com. April 1997.
  • 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, Kelli M. Gary (1983). “PRINCIPLES CRE LVG”, Pocket
  • 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 (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.78, Penguin
  • To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.

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