Maxwell Maltz Quotes
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.
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Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.
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I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
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It is the young people in whom I place my confidence because of their competence, because of their enthusiasm, because of their capacity to meet the frontiers that are changing every week.
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I think one of the things that really endeared me to people was that people got to view more aspects of my personality than most because of the different things that I did within WWE.
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I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
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A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.
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Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things know it and obey its power. Man, in the maelstrom of his passions whirled; The bee that takes the pollen to the flower; The earth, uplifting her bare, pulsing breast To fervent kisses of the amorous sun;-- Each but obeys creative Love's behest, Which everywhere instinctively is done.
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The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
