Cybernetics Quotations

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

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

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible....

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

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

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

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

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine