Maxwell Maltz Quotes

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

Maxwell Maltz

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• I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Children
  • Think
  • Nice

• An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Size
  • January
  • Immigrant

• On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Fragrance
  • Lemon
  • Lime

• Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Power
  • Poor

• What our fans want, what our fans believe, what our fans are interested in is why we are what we are. But, nevertheless, ultimately we have to do the things that we believe are essential for the long-term health of the game, of the league, and of all of our franchises.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Why

• I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Up
  • Book
  • Growing

• Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Age
  • Problem

• Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Always
  • Little
  • Ever

• Shah Jahan, who provedan emperor to be shorter than a lover,who turned a grave into a templewho gave his beloved a place of Godand converted love into a prayer.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Prayer

• Everywhere - all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul … This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Long
  • Song

• I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural... something unseemly... about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert... but this is really weird, isn't it?

  

  Bono U2
  • Up
  • Water
  • Rock

• Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Different
  • Writing
  • May

• I'd describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is the one shop I can't go past without going into. I just can't resist lovely stationery.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Past
  • Horse

• The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Good
  • Writing

• Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

  

  Pierre Dukan
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Food

• No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Men

• All the things you are are going to be sued and sued successfully. And, while the litigants may not be able to get blood from turnips, they can certainly ruin the turnips in the process of trying.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Trying
  • May

• In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

  

  David Baldacci
  • Good
  • Bad

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

  

  Maxwell Maltz