Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.
Maxwell MaltzRead
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Self-image significantly influences personality and behavior; altering it can lead to foundational changes.
Maxwell Maltz's quote emphasizes the importance of self-image in shaping who we are and how we act. He suggests that by transforming our self-perception, we can fundamentally change our personality traits and behaviors, indicating that the way we see ourselves directly impacts our interactions with the world.
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Self-ImagePersonalityBehaviorChangeTransformation
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about personal development.
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Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.
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Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
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Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.
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What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.
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