The Reward Is In The Struggle
Your reward lies not so much in the accomplishment as in the effort and struggle, and all the good qualities which they bring out.
Q&A With Coué
It is, if one consents, the full development of this power which can transform one's life.
The Miracle Within
In your mind you possess an unlimited power. It acts on matter if we know how to domesticate it. The imagination is like a horse without a bridle; if such a horse is pulling the carriage in which you are, he may do all sorts of foolish things and take you to your death. But harness him properly, drive him with a sure hand, and he will go wherever you like.
Émile Coué On Raising Children
Teach them above all that every one must set out in life with a very definite idea that he will succeed, and that, under the influence of this idea he will inevitably succeed. Not indeed, that he should quietly remain expecting events to happen, but because, impelled by this idea, he will do what is necessary to make it come true.
Émile Coué’s Results & Testimonials
This is the essential point of the method. In order to make auto-suggestions, you must eliminate the will completely and only address yourself to the imagination, so as to avoid a conflict between them in which the will would be vanquished.
Thoughts & Precepts of Émile Coué
When you make conscious autosuggestions, do it naturally, simply, with conviction, and above all without any effort. If unconscious and bad autosuggestions are so often realized, it is because they are made without effort.
How Coué Cured People
Suppose our brain is a plank in which are driven nails which represent the ideas, habits, and instincts, which determine our actions. If we find that there exists in a subject a bad idea, a bad habit, a bad instinct,--as it were, a bad nail, we take another which is the good idea, habit, or instinct, place it on top of the bad one and give a tap with a hammer--in other words we make a suggestion.
Coué Discovers The Placebo Effect
If a doctor who by his title alone has a suggestive influence on his patient, tells him that he can do nothing for him, and that his illness is incurable, he provokes in the mind of the latter an autosuggestion which may have the most disastrous consequences; if however he tells him that his illness is a serious one, it is true, but that with care, time, and patience, he can be cured, he sometimes and even often obtains results which will surprise him.
Basic Suggestive Reprogramming By Coué
By considering the thing easy it becomes so for you, although it might seem difficult to others. You will do it quickly and well, and without fatigue, because you do it without effort, whereas if you had considered it as difficult or impossible it would have become so for you, simply because you would have thought it so.
Simple Experiments That Transform Your Beliefs
Every thought entirely filling our mind becomes true for us and tends to transform itself into action.
How The Will & The Imagination Interact
If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it however difficult it may be. If on the contrary you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.
How We Are Enslaved By Our Imagination
It is necessary to know that two absolutely distinct selves exist within us. Both are intelligent, but while one is conscious the other is unconscious.
How To Get Booked For Magic Shows All Over The World
You must constantly be ready to demonstrate your prowess in the art of magic. You are not so much trying to sell your services but rather establish yourself as a unique creator of powerful magical experiences.
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Let us clearly understand what a miracle is. It's something contrariwise to the course of nature done by power of Will. . .
Mahdi, The Canadian Master of Magic That Knows No Barriers
Mahdi caused an expectant silence among the audience when he was introduced. Silence that, at his request for volunteers, was quickly altered.
Nothing is Impossible For Mahdi
It is better to keep some things a secret, because I believe that then you will be able to find your own way.
Without Hands Or Feet This Magician Refused To Give Up His Dream
Mahdi Gilbert didn't have dreams growing up because the people around him would convince him out of them. "One of my teachers told me I shouldn't use my body because my body 'isn't any good,'" the Canadian magician, who was born without hands or feet.
Penn Jillette Describes Being Fooled By Mahdi
I’ll remember this for the rest of my life… Gentlemen, you’ve just been fooled by pure sleight of hand by a man without hands.
Penn & Teller: Fool Us
Legendary Vegas Showman Johnny Thompson personally invited Mahdi Gilbert to appear on the third season of The CW’s PENN & TELLER: FOOL US in 2016. Mahdi was flown in to Las Vegas and spent the next week preparing for a performance that would mark the world of magic forever.
The Amazing Magicians
When the Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation decided to air a magic show in China they knew that they wanted to produce a TV show like no other. Mahdi Gilbert was one of the Western magicians asked to perform on the program.