Quotations from Abraham Maslow
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
All
the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in
practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn
baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards
growth, or towards the actualization.
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.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If
you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then
I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
If you only have 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.
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
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 ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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.
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.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.