Just a random collection of witticisms!

I have had been collecting and collating elegant quotes and/or fine witticisms ever since I was a young teenager in the late fifties, and my favourite reading companion was the Reader's Digest (besides comics and graphic novels), which actually started my ball rolling!

To me, most of them serve as "compressed wisdom"!

I often use them as vitamins for the mind, especially to start off the morning!

Pearls of Wisdom from the Oracle of Omaha, a nickname for billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who is arguably one of the greatest investors of all time.

He is called the Oracle of Omaha because the investment community very closely follows his investment picks and comments on the market, and he lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska.

Here's a quick roundup of pearls of wisdom, which happen to be my perennial favourites!

Against the backdrop of these pearls of wisdom from Dr Maxwell Maltz, writing in his Psycho-Cybernetics classic, I am appending herewith a nice chart showing you 37 habits to embrace for stopping negativity in your life: **

• "I am a firm believer in 'negative thinking' when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are - but he doesn't think continuously about the bunker - where he doesn't want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he DWELLS upon the green."
• "Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out."
• “In fact, it is literally impossible to really think positively about a particular situation as long as you hold a negative concept of your “self.”
• "Once the mind sees a positive self-image, it will use every resource at its disposal to make that image a reality. It has the same effect on a negative self-image, making it come real and leading to failure and despair."

Enjoy your reading, experimentation and assimilation!

The late Bob Proctor shared a vital lesson from one of his six great coaches and mentors in his life, Earl Nightinagle:

“Now right here we come to a rather strange fact.

We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot.

I want you to understand that that is not true.

You have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you that you can bring to the surface and achieve all that you desire.”

Doesn't this astute observation rings a bell with what Dr Maxwell Maltz had taught us?:

• “It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex.”

• “Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of in-born talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.”

Pearls of wisdom, indeed!