Top 96 David J Schwartz Quotes
#1. 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
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#2. A person who thinks his job is important Receives mental signals on how to do his job better; And a better job means More promotions, more money, more prestige, more happiness.
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#3. 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 only be half alive? Every minute a person spends worrying about dying is just one minute that fellow might as well have been dead.
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#4. 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.
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#5. The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.
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#6. 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.
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#10. But Mr. Success reacted differently when he got knocked down. He bounced up, learned a lesson, forgot the beating, and moved upward.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Complaining about the weather makes you more miserable and it spreads misery to others.
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#18. Truly, fear is a powerful force. In one way or another fear prevents people from getting what they want from life. Fear
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#20. Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.
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#21. 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
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#22. The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.
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#24. It's clear. We do not make one big jump to success. We get there one step at a time. An excellent plan is to set monthly quotas for accomplishment.
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#25. To think confidently, act confidently ... Act the way you want to feel.
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#26. Believe it can be done. When you really believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it.
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#27. Make everything about you say, "I'm confident, really confident.
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#28. 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.
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#29. Those who believe they can move mountains,do.Those who believe they can't,cannot.
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#30. Money seeds, of course, grow money. Plant service and harvest money.
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#34. Get the action habit - you do not need to wait until conditions are perfect.
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#35. We do not think in words and phrases. We think only in pictures and/or images. Words are the raw materials of thought.
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#36. 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.
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#38. Now make your idea grow. Think about it. Tie the idea to related ideas. Read anything you can find that is in any way akin to your idea. Investigate all angles. Then, when the time is ripe, put it to work for yourself, your job, your future.
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#39. Belief, strong belief, triggers the mind to figure ways and means and how-to.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.
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#42. The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you have
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#43. In the large cities that received new Americans, there flowered a golden age of restaurants, manned by the available talent from abroad and fueled by the restless wealth of the newly rich.
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#44. Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#50. 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).
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#51. 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.
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#52. How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
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#53. The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.
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#54. Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements.
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#55. The point is this: the successful person in any field takes time out to confer with himself or herself. Leaders use solitude to put the pieces of a problem together, to work out solutions, to plan, and, in one phrase, to do their superthinking.
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#57. 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.
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#58. When you help others feel important, you help yourself feel important too.
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#59. As you move higher and higher in the world of success, more and more of your job becomes "people development.
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#63. Once I heard a young paratrooper instructor explain, "The jump really isn't so bad. It's the waiting to jump that gets a fellow.
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#64. To gain the respect of others, you must first think you deserve respect. And the more respect you have for yourself, the more respect others will have for you.
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#65. How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you.
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#66. You win when you refuse to fight petty people. Fighting little people reduces you to their size.
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#67. What kind of performance would your car deliver if every morning before you left for work you scooped up a double handful of dirt and put it into your crankcase? That fine engine would soon be a mess, unable to do what you want it to do.
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#68. Believing something can be done sets the mind in motion to find a way to do it.
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#69. Think first class about everyone around you, and you'll receive first-class results in return.
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#70. 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
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#71. Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.
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#73. Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.
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#75. Here is a basic truth: To do anything, we must first believe it can be done.
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#77. The only real basis other people have for judging your abilities is your actions. And your actions are controlled by your thoughts.
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#79. 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.
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#80. You are what you think. Think enthusiasm and you'll be enthusiastic. To get high-quality work, be enthusiastic about the job you want done. Others will catch the enthusiasm you generate and you'll get first-class performance.
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#81. The way we think toward our jobs determines how our subordinates think toward their jobs.
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#83. Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.
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#84. In hundreds of interviews with people at all levels I've made this discovery: The bigger the person, the more apt he is to encourage you to talk; the smaller the person, the more apt he is to preach to you.
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#85. Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.
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#87. Around 1900 a sales executive discovered a "scientific" principle of sales management. It received a lot of publicity and even found its way into textbooks. The principle was this: There is one best way to sell a product. Find the best way. Then never deviate from it.
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#88. 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.
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#91. 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.
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#92. 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.
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#93. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
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#94. Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.
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#96. The success combination in business is: Do what you do better and do more of what you do.
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