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“The mind is what the mind is fed.”
― 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

“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

“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

“those who believe they can move mountains,do.Those who believe they can't,cannot.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Here is a basic truth: To do anything, we must first believe it can be done.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“And when you put life in your talk, you automatically put more life in you.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“As a general rule, the more interest you show in a person, the more he will produce for you. And his production is what carries you forward to greater and greater success.”
― 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

“3. Remember that the ability to think is of much greater value than the ability to memorize facts. Use your mind to create and develop ideas, to find new and better ways to do things. Ask yourself, “Am I using my mental ability to make history, or am I using it merely to record history made by others?”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier—certainly no more difficult—than small ideas and small plans. Mr.”
― 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

“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

“Make everything about you say, “I’m confident, really confident.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big