Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.

Maxwell Maltz
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  1. You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

  2. A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment... For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,...

  3. Times will change for the better when you change.

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  5. Our errors, mistakes, failures, and sometimes even our humiliations, were necessary steps in the learning process. However, they were meant to be means to an end - and not an end in themselves. When they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we...

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