Abraham Maslow 23 Staggering Quotes

Abraham Maslow 23 Staggering Quotese

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

— Abraham Maslow

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

— Abraham Maslow

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

— Abraham Maslow

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.

— Abraham Maslow

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

— Abraham Maslow

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

— Abraham Maslow

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

— Abraham Maslow

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.

— Abraham Maslow

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

— Abraham Maslow

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

— Abraham Maslow

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

— Abraham Maslow

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.

— Abraham Maslow

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

— Abraham Maslow

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

— Abraham Maslow

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

— Abraham Maslow

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

— Abraham Maslow

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

— Abraham Maslow

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.

— Abraham Maslow

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

— Abraham Maslow

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

— Abraham Maslow

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

— Abraham Maslow

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.

— Abraham Maslow

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

— Abraham Maslow

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