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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
The mind is what the mind is fed.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Action cures fear.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. Visualization adds value to everything. A big thinker always visualizes what can be done in the future. He isn't stuck with the present
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.
David J. Schwartz
Hope is a start. But hope needs action to win victories
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking BIg)
WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
the thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you have
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
those who believe they can move mountains,do.Those who believe they can't,cannot.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Most of us make two basic errors with respect to intelligence: 1. We underestimate our own brainpower. 2. We overestimate the other fellow’s brainpower.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Look at things as they can be, not as they are.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
WHEN YOU BELIEVE, YOUR MIND WILL FIND WAY TO DO
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Build castles, don't dig graves.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
The point is clear. People who get things done in this world don’t wait for the spirit to move them; they move the spirit.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Belief triggers the power to do.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
whether the psychological problem is big or little, the cure comes when one learns to quit drawing negative form one's memory bank and withdraws positive instead
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
David J. Schwartz
when we do what is known to be wrong, two negative things happened. First, we feel guilt and this guilt eats away confidence. Second, other people sooner or later find out and lose confidence in us
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Treating someone as second-class never gets you first-class results.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Put these two thoughts deep in your mind. First, give your ideas value by acting on them.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Remember, the main job of the leader is thinking. And the best preparation for leadership is thinking.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Take the initiative in building friendships—leaders always do. It’s easy and natural for us to tell ourselves, “Let him make the first move.” “Let them call us.” “Let her speak first.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
The point is this: Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others. To think big, we must use words and phrases that produce big, positive mental images.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
You win when you refuse to fight petty people. Fighting little people reduces you to their size.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
a man big enough to be humble appears more confident than the insecure man who feels compelled to call attention to his accomplishments. A little modesty goes a long way.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Nothing—absolutely nothing—in this life gives you more satisfaction than knowing you’re on the road to success and achievement. And nothing stands as a bigger challenge than making the most of yourself.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Meet problems and obstacles as they arise. The test of a successful person is not the ability to eliminate all problems before he takes action, but rather the ability to find solutions to difficulties when he encounters them.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
This is a fact of paramount significance: Each human being, whether he lives in India or Indianapolis, whether he’s ignorant or brilliant, civilized or uncivilized, young or old, has this desire: He wants to feel important.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
the big things that make a good speaker: knowledge of what he’s going to talk about and an intense desire to tell it to other people.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Go out of your way to meet people. And don’t be timid. Don’t be afraid to be unusual. Find out who the other person is, and be sure he knows who you are.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Practice calling people by their names. Every year shrewd manufacturers sell more briefcases, pencils, Bibles, and hundreds of other items just by putting the buyer’s name on the product. People like to be called by name. It gives everyone a boost to be addressed by name.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Put service first, and money takes care of itself—always.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Look important. It helps you think important. How you look on the outside has a lot to do with how you feel on the inside.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Be an experimental person. Break up fixed routines. Expose yourself to new restaurants, new books, new theaters, new friends; take a different route to work someday, take a different vacation this year, do something new and different this weekend.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them. And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.
David J. Schwartz
Here is a basic truth: To do anything, we must first believe it can be done.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Belief releases creative powers.
David J. Schwartz
Whoever is under a man's power is under his protection, too.
David J. Schwartz
Your mind will create a way if you let it.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
illustrates just one point: action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Einstein taught us a big lesson. He felt it was more important to use your mind to think than to use it as a warehouse for facts.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Reminding yourself, you never gain anything from an argument but you always lose something.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
If employees are doing something wrong or are making a mistake, I am doubly careful not to hurt their feelings and make them feel small or embarrassed. I just use four simple steps: “First, I talk to them privately. “Second, I praise them for what they are doing well. “Third, I point out the one thing at the moment that they could do better and I help them find the way. “Fourth, I praise them again on their good points.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting & in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously & continuously a plan for self-development & growth.
David J. Schwartz
Belief, strong belief, triggers the mind to figure ways and means and how-to.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Perfection is highly desirable. But nothing man-made or man-designed is, or can be, absolutely perfect. So to wait for the perfect set of conditions is to wait forever.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Concentrate on your assets. You’re better than you think you are.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Big thinkers train themselves to see not just what is but what can be.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Capacity is a state of mind. How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
UPGRADE YOUR THINKING. THINK LIKE IMPORTANT PEOPLE THINK
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
To be on top, you’ve got to feel like you’re on top. Give yourself a pep talk and discover how much bigger and stronger you feel.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
The story is told that the great scientist Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein’s reply was “I don’t know. Why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
When you believe something is impossible, your mind goes to work for you to prove why. But when you believe, really believe, something can be done, your mind goes to work for you and helps you find the ways to do it.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Here’s a technique that works: before complaining or accusing or reprimanding someone or launching a counterattack in self-defense, ask yourself, “Is it really important?” In most cases, it isn’t and you avoid conflict.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Believe triggers the power to do.
David J. Schwartz
Knowledge is power only when put to use—and then only when the use made of it is constructive.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
It isn’t what one has that’s important. Rather, it’s how much one is planning to get that counts.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Next time you are in a large group, observe something very significant: the most important person present is the one person most active in introducing himself.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
talk only Happiness, talk only Progress, talk only Prosperity.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.
David J. Schwartz
Ideas in themselves are not enough. That idea for getting more business, for simplifying work procedures, is of value only when it is acted upon.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
With a pencil and paper you can tie your mind to a problem.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Remember: People who tell you it cannot be done almost always are unsuccessful people, are strictly average or mediocre at best in terms of accomplishment.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Think first class about everyone around you, and you’ll receive first-class results in return.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
As you approach your job each day, ask yourself, “Am I worthy in every respect of being imitated? Are all my habits such that I would be glad to see them in my subordinates?
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Here is a psychological principle that is worth reading over twenty-five times. Read it until it absolutely saturates you: To think confidently, act confidently.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
The success combination in business is: Do what you do better and do more of what you do.
David J. Schwartz
Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.” —DAVID SCHWARTZ
John C. Maxwell (How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life)
Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never—yes, never—sell yourself short.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
And the seed of money is service. That
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
When you boil it all down, the big cause of stress is negative feelings toward other people.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
the only thing that counts about one’s vocabulary, is the effect his words and phrases have on his own and others’ thinking.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
People naturally pay more for acreage and an idea than they do for just acreage.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Act the way you want to feel.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Don’t let ideas escape. Write them down.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Remind yourself several times daily, “My attitudes are more important than my intelligence.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution
David J. Schwartz
The “Okay-I’ll-give-it-a-try-but-I-don’t-think-it-will-work” attitude produces failures.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
In the words of Publilius Syrus: A wise man will be master of his mind, A fool will be its slave.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
And when you put life in your talk, you automatically put more life in you.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
I’m going to live until I die and I’m not going to get life and death confused. While I’m on this earth I’m going to live. Why be only half alive? Every minute a person spends worrying about dying is just one minute that fellow might as well have been dead.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Be constructively self-critical. Don’t run away from inadequacies. Be like the real professionals. They seek out their faults and weaknesses, then correct them. That’s what makes them professionals.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Take the initiative. Be like the successful. Go out of your way to meet people. And don’t be timid. Don’t be afraid to be unusual. Find out who the other person is, and be sure he knows who you are.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
must have persistence. But persistence is only one of the ingredients of victory. We can try and try, and try and try and try again, and still fail, unless we combine persistence with experimentation.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
He believes he is worth little, so he receives little. He believes he can’t do big things, and he doesn’t. He believes he is unimportant, so everything he does has an unimportant mark. As times goes by, lack of belief in himself shows through in the way the fellow talks, walks, acts.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
And, please, as you visualize your future, don’t be afraid to be blue sky. People these days are measured by the size of their dreams. No one accomplishes more than he sets out to accomplish. So visualize a big future.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Make everything about you say, “I’m confident, really confident.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Pay twice as much and buy half as many.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Do something special for your family often. It
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Put service first, and money takes care of itself.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
No one is born with confidence. People who radiate confidence have conquered fear and worry. They’ve done so through action as action does cure fear. Hesitation only increases fear so take action promptly and be decisive. To conquer your fear do the following: Isolate your fear and determine exactly what you are afraid of. Identify the action that can overcome the fear.
Eighty Twenty Publishing (Summary of The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz)
Do this: Start marching toward your ultimate goal by making the next task you perform, regardless of how unimportant it may seem, a step in the right direction. Commit this question to memory and use it to evaluate everything you do: “Will this help take me where I want to go?” If the answer is no, back off; if yes, press ahead.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Initiative is a special kind of action. It’s doing something worthwhile without being told to do it. The person with initiative has a standing invitation to join the high income brackets in every business and profession.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Taking an ax and chopping your neighbor’s furniture to pieces won’t make your furniture look one bit better; and using verbal axes and grenades on another person doesn’t do one thing to make you a better you or me a better me.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Be extra, extra cautious about this: don’t let negative-thinking people—“negators”—destroy your plan to think yourself to success. Negators are everywhere, and they seem to delight in sabotaging the positive progress of others.
David J. Schwartz (The Magic of Thinking Big)
Ideas are fruits of your thinking. But they've got to be harnessed and put to work to have value. Each year an oak tree produces enough acorns to populate a good-size forest. Yet from these bushels of seeds perhaps only one or two acorns will become a tree. The Squirrels destroy most of them, and the hard ground beneath the tree doesn't give the few remaining seeds much chance for a start. So it is with ideas. Very few bear fruit. Ideas are highly perishable. If we're not on guard, the squirrels (negative-thinking people) will destroy most of them. Ideas require special handling from the time they are born until they're transformed into practical ways for doing things better.
David J. Schwartz
Losing even a single night’s sleep can precipitate a manic episode in people with bipolar disorder who have otherwise been stable (Malkoff-Schwartz et al. 1998). In parallel, sleep deprivation can improve the mood of a person with depression, although only briefly (Harvey, 2008).
David J. Miklowitz (The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know)
Psychologist and mindfulness expert David Richo, Ph.D., has focused on how these healthy connections are formed and what is needed to keep them alive. He describes the “5 A’s” as the qualities and gifts we all naturally seek out from the important people in our lives, including family, friends, and especially partners. What are these 5 A’s? • Attention—genuine interest in you, what you like and dislike, what inspires and motivates you without being overbearing or intrusive. You experience being heard and noticed. • Acceptance—genuinely embracing your interests, desires, activities, and preferences as they are without trying to alter or change them in any way. • Affection—physical comforting as well as compassion. • Appreciation—encouragement and gratitude for who you are, as you are. • Allowing—it is safe to be yourself and express all that you feel, even if it is not entirely polite or socially acceptable. What Richo is describing, in essence, are those genuine needs we have that form the basis of secure, healthy relationships. The 5 A’s are what we all should have received most of the time from our caregivers when we were growing up. They are also what we want in our adult relationships today. In his book How to Be an Adult in Relationships, Richo compares and contrasts the 5 A’s with what happens in unhealthy or unequal relationships.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz (You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taki ng Control of Your Life)