A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.
Maxwell MaltzBegin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.
Maxwell MaltzIt doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt.
Maxwell MaltzWe are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.
Maxwell MaltzYour automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.
Maxwell Maltz