Maxwell Maltz Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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The truth sustains me.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.
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Opinions are like nipples, everybody has one. Some have firm points, others are barely discernible through layers, and some are displayed at every opportunity regardless of whether the audience has stated "I am interested in your nipples" or not.
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You can only offend me if you mean something to me.
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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.
