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“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

“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

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

“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

“Belief, strong belief, triggers the mind to figure ways and means and how-to.”
― 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

“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

“Don’t let ideas escape. Write them down.”
― 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

“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

“illustrates just one point: action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.”
― 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

“Reminding yourself, you never gain anything from an argument but you always lose something.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Your mind will create a way if you let it.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“control.” “Well, sir,” he said, “I really can’t get mad at a fellow like that. You see, he really isn’t mad at me. I was just the scapegoat. The poor fellow may be in bad trouble with his wife, or his business may be off, or maybe he feels inferior and this was his golden chance to feel like a wheel. I’m just the guy who gave him a chance to get something out of his system.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

“Tell yourself, “I’m in condition right now to begin. I can’t gain a thing by putting it off. I’ll use the ‘get ready’ time and energy to get going instead.”
― 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

“Think first class about everyone around you, and you’ll receive first-class results in return.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big