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Abraham H. Maslow

Abraham H. Maslow

American psychologist

Lived from: 1908 - 1970

Category: Psychologists Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 1 april 1908 Died: 8 june 1970

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  • One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 255.
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  • 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.
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  • Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
    Motivation and Personality (1954)
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  • Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering
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  • The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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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.
    Eupsychian Management : A Journal (1965) p. 212
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  • 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.
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  • The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
    Motivation and Personality (1954)
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  • The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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  • The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 234
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  • The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point: This can be done.
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  • To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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  • We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
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  • We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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  • We may define therapy as a search for value.
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  • What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 93.
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  • What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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  • You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.
    Tracy - How the Best Leaders Lead (2010) p. 35
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  • If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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