Abraham Maslow quotes - page 2

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)
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. View quote
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is too often not realized that culture itself is an adaptive tool, one of whose main functions is to make the physiological emergencies come less and less often. View quote
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The higher people get, the more evolved and psychologically healthy people get, the more will enlightened management policy be necessary in order to survive in competition and the more handicapped will be an enterprise with an authoritarian policy. View quote
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane. (Abraham Maslow)
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. View quote
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Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. View quote
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If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run. View quote
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. View quote
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The great lesson from the true mystics 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, and in one's backyard. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail. View quote
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He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail. View quote
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This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming. (Abraham Maslow)
Emergency conditions are, almost by definition, rare in the normally functioning peaceful society. View quote
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Clearly what will be called personality problems depends on who is doing the calling. The slave owner? The dictator? The patriarchal father? The husband who wants his wife to remain a child? View quote
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If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. View quote
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For our chronically and extremely hungry man, Utopia can be defined simply as a place where there is plenty of food. View quote
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