Abraham Maslow Quotes - Page 6

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• The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.

  Abraham Maslow

  Jobs, Facts, Helping

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• I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks.
  All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

  Abraham Maslow

  Encouragement, Fear, Mistake

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

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• I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

  Abraham Maslow

  Men, Missing, Links

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Lightning, Moments

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• Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

  Abraham Maslow

  Encouragement, Character, Smoking

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• We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

  Abraham Maslow

  Often Is, Humanity, Fundamentals

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

  Abraham Maslow

  Perfection, Mind, Religion

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• To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.

  Abraham Maslow

  Reality, Pay, Benefits

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• Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Self, People

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• Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

  Abraham Maslow

  Experience, World, Internals

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• The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.

  Abraham Maslow

  Real, Exclusion, Permit

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• Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

  Abraham Maslow

  Music, Peace, Motivation

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• Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  Abraham Maslow

  Mother, Children, Crazy

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

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• Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.

  Abraham Maslow

  Girl, God, Boys

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• If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

  Abraham Maslow

  Baby, Children, Home

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• Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, People, Might

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

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• The peaker learns surely and certainly that life can be worthwhile, that it can be beautiful and valuable. There are ends in life, i.e., experiences which are so precious in themselves as to prove that not everything is a means to some end other than itself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Beautiful, Mean, Ends

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• As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.

  Abraham Maslow

  Running, Motivation, Self

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• Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

  Abraham Maslow

  World, Etc, Process

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• 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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Change, Baby, Growth

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• We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Miracle, Faces

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

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• The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to
  an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

  Abraham Maslow

  Zero, Men, Justice

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

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• Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light

  Abraham Maslow

  Fashion, Light, Safety

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

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• The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

  Abraham Maslow

  Work, People, Facts

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.211, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

  Abraham Maslow

  God, Stupidity, Dumb

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