Maxwell Maltz Quotes
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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Listens-To-Wind 'Injun Joe': Not gonna bind ya or break ya, old spirit. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.
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It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things.
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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
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True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.
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A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.
