Abraham Maslow Quotes - Page 3

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• The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

  Abraham Maslow

  Beautiful, Fate, Wonderful

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• We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

  Abraham Maslow

  Perfect, Glimpse, Moments

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Deborah Collins Stephens, Gary Heil (1998). “Maslow on management”, Wiley

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• Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

  Abraham Maslow

  Laughing, Sacred, Peak Experiences

  "Relax - You May Have Only a Few Minutes Left : Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life and Work". Book by Loretta LaRoche, p. xvii, 1998.

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• Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

  Abraham Maslow

  Animal, Men, Economics

  Abraham H. Maslow (1973). “On Dominance, Self-Esteem, and Self-Actualization”, p.172, Maurice Bassett

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• You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Class, Unhappy, Firsts

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• The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

  Abraham Maslow

  Loss, Discovery, Identity

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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

  Abraham Maslow

  Insanity, Curiosity, Insane

  Attributed to Abraham Maslow in "New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution" by Colin Wilson (p.155-156), 1972.

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• In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Mean, Rejection, Wish

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become.

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  Order, Truly Happy

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• Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

  Abraham Maslow

  Children, Creativity, Birth

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• 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... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature.

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  Successful, Men, Psychology

  "Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow".

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• (Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

  Abraham Maslow

  Thanksgiving, Appreciation, Gratitude

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

  Abraham Maslow

  Teaching, Learning, Knowing

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• People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well.

  Abraham Maslow

  Eye, Order, Capacity To Love

  "Toward a Psychology of Being".

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• I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Taken, Men, Thinking

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• We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

  Abraham Maslow

  Remember, Human Nature, Humans

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• What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

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  Meaningful, Brother, Children

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• If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl

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  Reality, Safety, Needs

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• 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

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.

  Abraham Maslow

  Character, People, Safety

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

  Abraham Maslow

  Goal, Ordinary, Roaring

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• There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.

  Abraham Maslow

  Baby, Taken, Men

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• In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, College, Long

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• What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

  Abraham Maslow

  Guilt, May, Be True To Yourself

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.88, John Wiley & Sons

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• Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

  Abraham Maslow

  Confidence, Fear, Creativity

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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