To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.
the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
Begin 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.
You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.
Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.
Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible....