The Magic of Thinking Big
by Parker · 116 things on NewTwos
- Success is determined not so much by the size of one's brain as it is by the size of one's thinking.
- All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us.
- "Great men are those who see that thoughts rule the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven." - John Milton
- "There is nothing either good or bad except that thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
- Believe you can succeed and you will.
- Belief in success is the one basic, absolutely essential ingredient of successful people.
- Believe in yourself and good things do start happening.
- Your mind is a "thought factory."
- Believe in yourself, believe you can succeed. Think success.
- Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are.
- ''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 death is just one minute that fellow might as well have been dead."
- The right attitude and one arm will beat the wrong attitude and two arms every time.
- Be genuinely grateful that your health is as good as it is.
- The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than the quantity of your brainpower.
- Think "I can do it. I will succeed."
- We underestimate our own brainpower and overestimate the other fellow's brainpower.
- Knowledge is power when you use it constructively.
- The ability to know how to get information is more important than using the mind as a garage for facts.
- Don't sell yourself short. Concentrate on your assets. Discover your superior talents.
- Are you using your mental ability to make history, or are you using it merely to record history made by others?
- You're only as old as you feel. Your age won't be a handicap unless you make it one.
- Think, "I'm going to start now, my best years are ahead of me."
- Don't waste your mental muscles dreaming of an effortless way to win success.
- Action cures fear.
- Determine exactly what you are afraid of and then take action. There is some kind of action for any kind of fear.
- Doing what's right keeps your conscience satisfied and builds self-confidence.
- To think confidently, act confidently.
- Practice making eye contact.
- Smile big.
- Practice doing what your conscience tells you is right.
- To think big, we must use words and phrases that produce big, positive mental images.
- Say you feel wonderful at every possible opportunity and you will begin to feel wonderful. Become known as a person who always feels great. It wins friends.
- Use big, positive, cheerful words and phrases to describe how you feel.
- Use bright, cheerful, favorable words and phrases to describe other people.
- Use positive language to encourage others.
- 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.
- See what can be, not just what is.
- It isn't what one has that's important. Rather, it's how much one is planning to get that counts.
- What can you do to add value to your subordinates? What can you do to help them to become more effective? Remember, to bring out the best in a person, you must first visualize their best.
- What can you do to make yourself more valuable today?
- Keep your eyes focused on the big objective.
- To do anything, we must first believe it can be done. Believing something can be done sets the mind in motion to find a way to do it.
- When you believe, your mind finds a way to do it. There are many ways in which a good job can be done.
- How can you do a better job today?
- People who command the most respect are also the most successful. We receive the kind of treatment we think we deserve.
- Thinking regulates actions. How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you.
- Remember, your appearance talks. Dress Right. You can't afford not to.
- Look at yourself through your superior's eyes.
- Look sharp because it will help you think sharp.
- Your appearance is the first basis for evaluation other people have.
- Pay twice as much and buy half as many.
- You are what you think you are.
- Always show a positive attitude toward your job.
- People who tell you it cannot be done almost always are unsuccessful people. The opinions' of these people can be poison.
- Be sure you're in the flock that thinks right.
- When our attitude is right, our abilities reach a maximum of effectiveness and good results inevitably follow.
- To activate others, you must first activate yourself.
- To get enthusiastic, learn more about the thing you are not enthusiastic about.
- Live it up. Be sure everything you do and say tells people you are alive, mean it, and are going places.
- Transmit good news' to the people you work with. Give them encouragement, compliment them at every opportunity. People want to feel important.
- Practice appreciation and calling people by their names.
- The seed of money is service.
- A service-first attitude creates wealth.
- Put service first, and money takes care of itself - always.
- Always give people more than they expect to get.
- Success depends on the support of other people.
- Be a comfortable person so there is no strain in being with you.
- Acquire the quality of relaxed easy-going so that things do not ruffle you.
- Don't be egotistical. Guard against the impression that you know it all.
- Cultivate the quality of being interesting so people will get something of value from their association with you.
- Take the initiative in building friendships - leaders always do.
- Introduce yourself to others at every possible opportunity - at parties, meetings, on airplanes, at work, everywhere.
- Recognize the fact that no person is perfect.
- Think positive toward people and discover how wonderful this world is.
- Ask yourself, "What can I do to make myself more deserving of the next opportunity?" Don't waste time and energy being discouraged. Don't berate yourself. Plan to win next time.
- Excellent ideas are not enough. An only fair idea acted upon, and developed, is 100 percent better than a terrific idea that dies because it isn't followed up.
- "Nothing comes merely by thinking about it." - John Wanamaker
- 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.
- A good idea if not acted upon produces terrible psychological pain. But a good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction.
- Use action to cure fear and gain confidence.
- People who get things done in this world don't wait for the spirit to move them; they move the spirit.
- Start now, right now.
- "Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today." - Benjamin Franklin
- Be a crusader. When you see something that you believe ought to be done, pick up the ball and run.
- Which group do you want acceptance from: the group that laughs because it is secretly jealous or the group that is making progress by doing things?
- All it took was a persistent man who never thought he was defeated.
- Salvage something from every setback.
- If you don't produce, you don't get where you want to go.
- Defeat is only a state of mind, and nothing more.
- Being self-critical is constructive.
- Combine persistence with experimentation.
- Tell yourself, "There is a way."
- All thoughts are magnetic.
- Refuse to let yourself say or think that it's impossible.
- All things do work together for good if you'll just develop a clear vision.
- Every bit of human progress - our inventions, our medical discoveries, our engineering triumphs, our business successes - were first visualized before they became realities.
- A goal is a clear ''This is what I'm working toward."
- The important thing is not where you were or where you are but where you want to get.
- Without goals, you cannot grow.
- Before you start out, know where you want to go.
- When you let yourself become obsessed with a goal, you receive the physical power, energy, and enthusiasm needed to accomplish your goal.
- To accomplish something, we must plan to accomplish something.
- Progress is made one step at a time.
- Create an image of yourself ten years from now.
- Let your major goal be your autopilot. When you let your goal absorb you, you'll find yourself making the right decisions to reach your goal.
- Invest in yourself. Purchase those things that build mental power and efficiency. Invest in education. Invest in idea starters.
- Four leadership rules: 1. Trade minds with the people you want to influence. 2. Think: What is the human way to handle this? 3. Think progress, believe in progress, push for progress. 4. Take time out to confer with yourself and develop your supreme thinking power.
- To get others to do what you want them to do, you must see things through their eyes.
- Show interest in your subordinates' off-the-job accomplishments. Treat everyone with dignity. Remind yourself that the primary purpose in life is to enjoy it. As a general rule, the more interest you show in a person, the more they will produce for you, and their production is what carries you forward to greater and greater success.
- A man big enough to be humble appears more confident than the insecure man who feels compelled to call attention to his accomplishments. A little modesty goes a long way.
- Practice praising people. Rub people the right way. Be human.
- Think, talk, act, and live the way you want your subordinates to think, talk, act, and live - and they will.
- Decisions and observations made alone in managed solitude have an uncanny way of being 100 percent right.
- Set aside some time each day to be completely by yourself.
- A wise man will be the master of his mind. A fool will be its slave.