Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.

I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

Skill in any performance whether it be in sports, in playing the piano, in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and 'natural' as opposed to self-conscious and studied.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

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.

An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Unthaw and become more natural.

Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an actual experience and one that is vividly imagined.

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.