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“Small things with great love. . . . It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into the doing. And it is not how much we give, but how much love we put into the giving. To God there is nothing small.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“One of the study’s major findings was that in the successful relationships, positive attention outweighed negative on a daily basis by a factor of five to one. This positive attention wasn’t about dramatic actions like throwing over-the-top birthday parties or purchasing a dream home. It took the form of small gestures, such as: using a pleased tone of voice when receiving a phone call from the partner, as opposed to an exasperated tone or a rushed pace that implied the partner’s call was interrupting important tasks inquiring about dentist appointments or other details of the other person’s day putting down the remote control, newspaper, or telephone when the other partner walked through the door arriving home at the promised time—or at least calling if there was a delay These small moments turned out to be more predictive of a loving, trusting relationship than were the more innovative steps of romantic vacations and expensive presents. Possibly, that’s because small moments provide consistent tending and nurturing.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“One of the most powerful ways to “program�� your brain is the kaizen technique of asking small questions.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.�� —Albert Einstein”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“When life gets scary and difficult, we tend to look for solutions in places where it is easy or at least familiar to do so, and not in the dark, uncomfortable places where real solutions might lie... Fear is normal, and a natural sign of ambition.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts.�� —John Wooden, one of the most successful coaches in the history of college basketball”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“The steps were so small I couldn’t fail!”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.�� —Sam Keen”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“Once you've experienced the joy of taking the first step, you can decide whether it's appropriate to take another. You'll know you're ready when your current step becomes automatic, effortless, and even pleasurable. But don't let anyone pressure you... If you ever feel yourself dreading the activity or making excuses for not performing it, it's time to cut back on the size of the step.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“psychological research clearly shows that people who feel underappreciated tend to resent criticism and ignore the advice they’re given.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“لو كان فى مقدور البشر التحكم فى أفعالهم دون مشقة لكنا جنسًا أرقى بكثير, ولبدت الصفحة الأولة من صحيفة الصباح مختلفة كل الإختلاف.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. "
-Tao Te Ching”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“low-key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity. Just”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“What is one small step I could take toward reaching my goal?”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.�� —Mark Twain”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“Your brain loves questions and won’t reject them . . . unless the question is so big it triggers fear.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“large goal �� fear �� access to cortex restricted �� failure small goal �� fear bypassed �� cortex engaged �� success”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“Confront the difficult when it is still easy; Accomplish the great task by a series of small acts."
-TAO TE CHING”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“that feeling you might call “writer’s block�� is actually fear. The”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“Instead of aggressively forcing yourself into a boot-camp mentality about change, give your mind permission to make the leaps on its own schedule, in its own time.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“Build the kaizen habit of asking yourself small (and positive) questions... You are programming your brain for creativity”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“Low key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“Can I persuade you that if you let a driver into your lane, or thank a sales clerk, or smile at someone in a hallway, you can change his or her life? Of course not—but if you don’t go through the day with the assumption that small moments and small gestures can touch people’s lives, what is the alternative belief?”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“Mind sculpture, developed by Ian Robertson, is a newer technique that involves total but still-imaginary sensory immersion. It requires its practitioners to pretend that they are actually engaged in the action, not just seeing but hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching. In mind sculpture, people imagine the movement of their muscles, and the rise and fall of their emotions.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“It may come as a relief to know that there’s a nearly painless way to train yourself to perform difficult tasks, even those you think are unsuited to your nature and talents. This method, called mind sculpture, can help you run a tough race, go out on blind dates, or talk to employees more effectively.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“In dating, networking, and giving presentations, we’re told, “Fake it till you make it.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“The succeeding chapters are devoted to the personal application of kaizen and encompass six different strategies. These strategies include: asking small questions to dispel fear and inspire creativity thinking small thoughts to develop new skills and habits—without moving a muscle taking small actions that guarantee success solving small problems, even when you’re faced with an overwhelming crisis bestowing small rewards to yourself or others to produce the best results recognizing the small but crucial moments that everyone else ignores”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“that low-key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“According to this definition, innovation is a drastic process of change. Ideally, it occurs in a very short period of time, yielding a dramatic turnaround. Innovation is fast and big and flashy; it reaches for the largest result in the smallest amount of time.”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.�� —Helen Keller”
― Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way