Abraham Maslow Infosite
Abraham Maslow Quotes
• What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
• Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
• But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
• Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
• He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
• A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
• A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
• To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
• We may define therapy as a search for value.
• To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
• We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
• It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
• If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
• If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
• The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
• One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
• The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
• The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham Maslow Bibliography
1968 Toward a Psychology of Being
1966 The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance
1965 Eupsychian Management
1964 Religions, Values and Peak-experiences
1954 Motivation and Personality
1943 A Theory of Human Motivation
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