Quotes From "The New Psychocybernetics: The Original Science Of Selfimprovement And Success That Has Changed The Lives Of 30 Million..." By Maxwell Maltz

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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... For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will, ’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. Maxwell Maltz
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It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings of inferiority; their "superior" self is a fiction, a coverup, to hide from themselves and others their deep-down feelings of inferiority and insecurity. Maxwell Maltz