Maxwell Maltz Quotes

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

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• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Graduation

• Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • School
  • Think

• In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • View
  • Potential
  • Indian

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Golf

• The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Change
  • Wonder
  • Architecture

• When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Good
  • Music
  • God

• Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Christian

• I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Me
  • Ballet
  • Teachers

• It's been pretty effortless with Sensa because I am not thinking about how long do I need to do this. Usually, when you stop a diet program, you lose control again. But I don't need to stop what I'm doing. I'm eating everything that I like. Sensa just helps me keep it all in check.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Control
  • Diet
  • Sensa

• I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Think
  • Man
  • Editing

• Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Responsibility

• When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Words

• A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • Water
  • Sweet

• Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Truth
  • War
  • Evil

• A Looking In View: Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains' legacy. The Skinny (November 13, 2013).

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • Legacy
  • November

• The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Sweet

• There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.

  

  Georg Cantor
  • Doubt

• There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Sick
  • Lazy

• I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

  

  Jim Talent
  • Work
  • Marriage
  • Poverty

• For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

  

  Maxwell Maltz