David. J. Schwartz, PhD quotes and words of wisdom

"Get the action habit ? you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect."
Found in the topic Action.

"Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn"t based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never ? yes, never ? sell yourself short."
Found in the topic Ancestors.

"Production in your thought factory is under the charge of two foremen, one of whom we will call Mr. Triumph and the other Mr. Defeat. Mr. Triumph is in charge of manufacturing positive thoughts. He specialises in producing reasons why you can, why you?re qualified, why you will. The other foreman, Mr. Defeat, produces negative, depreciating reasons why you can?t, why you?re weak, why you?re inadequate. His specialty is the "why-you-will-fail" chain of thoughts."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"But there?s another type of poison perhaps a little more insidious ? thought poison ? commonly called "gossip." Thought poison differs from body poison in two ways. It affects the mind, not the body, and it is more subtle. The person being poisoned usually doesn?t know it. Thought-poison is subtle but it accomplishes "big" things. It reduces the size of our thinking by forcing us to concentrate on petty, unimportant things. It warps and twists our thinking about people because it is based on a distortion of facts, and it creates a guilt feeling in us that shows through when we meet the person we?ve gossiped about. Thought-poison is 0 percent right thinking: it is 100 percent wrong thinking. And contrary to lots of opinion, women have no exclusive franchise on gossip. Every day many men, too, live in a partially poisoned environment."
Found in the topic Gossip.

Interesting Quotes

If you can dream it, you can do it.Walt Disney - US cartoonist & movie producer (1901 - 1966)

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Ernest Hemingway - US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)