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• The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone
  creative?'

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Keys, Creative

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

  Abraham Maslow

  Mean, Optimism, Hopelessness

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• We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

  Abraham Maslow

  Males, Definitions, Study

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• To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life, Wisdom, Smart

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• What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?

  Abraham Maslow

  Thinking, Slave, Peak Experiences

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

  Abraham Maslow

  Motivation, Men, Cynicism

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• 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

  Communication, Defense, Way

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• 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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Motivation, Reality, Self

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• The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

  Abraham Maslow

  Fate, Creating, Agency

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self, Psychological, Modern

  "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 123, 1954.

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• The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

  Abraham Maslow

  Humility, Emotional, Special

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

  Abraham Maslow

  Technology, Joy, Why Not

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• Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

  Abraham Maslow

  Communication, Expression, Joy

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• Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after all, come sometimes to anyone. But, so to speak, to take up residence on the high plateau .... that is another matter altogether. That tends to be a lifelong effort.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hard Work, Long, Effort

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• When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Nails, Hammers, Problem

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• ...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Faith, Family And Friends

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• We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

  Abraham Maslow

  Wise, Hero, Saint

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• A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.

  Abraham Maslow

  Children, Routine, World

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• There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige

  Abraham Maslow

  Achievement, Independence, Desire

  Abraham Maslow “A Theory of Human Motivation”, Lulu.com

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• Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

  Abraham Maslow

  Appreciation, Motivation, Blessing

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

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• The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

  Abraham Maslow

  Men, Apples, Doe

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

  Abraham Maslow

  Truth, Real, Passion

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• My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Self, Healthy

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.187, John Wiley & Sons

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• An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.

  Abraham Maslow

  God, Car, Stupidity

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