Maxwell Maltz Quotes

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

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• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Forget
  • Legal

• But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Me
  • Prefer
  • Smiling

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Country

• Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Years
  • Economics
  • Economists

• There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

  

  Sally Field
  • Beautiful
  • Feel
  • Parts

• There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Guy
  • Perception
  • Hollywood

• When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Decision
  • Back

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • People
  • Girl
  • Hurt

• When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Night
  • Single
  • Myself

• Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Power

• It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Up
  • Great
  • Control

• I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Say

• My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Romantic
  • Shines

• Everyone I vote for never wins. Welcome to America.

  

  David Rakoff
  • America

• My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• A moment guess'd - then back behind the Fold Immerst of Darkness round the Drama roll'd Which, for the Pastime of Eternity, He doth Himself contrive, enact, behold.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Drama

• My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Space

• Never dwell on the tomorrow; remember, that it's God's and not ours.

  

  Edward Bouverie Pusey
  • Remember
  • Gods
  • Dwell

• You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

  

  Maxwell Maltz
  • World
  • Live
  • May