“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.”

“Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.”

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

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

“Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.”

“You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you”

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”