Abraham Maslow Quotes

• Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety and risk. Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

  Abraham Maslow

  Topics in Life

• If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

  Abraham Maslow

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  Tags in Happiness

• It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

  Abraham Maslow

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  Tags in Desire

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

  Abraham Maslow

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  Tags in Tools

• To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

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  Tags in Man, Problem

• Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

  Abraham Maslow

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• One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

  Abraham Maslow

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  Tags in Safety, Growth
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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

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  Tags in Determination, Despise

• If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

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

  Abraham Maslow

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  Tags in Awfully, Find, Insane, Curious

• The key question isn’t “What fosters creativity?” But it is 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 be not 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 if anybody created anything.

  Abraham Maslow

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  Tags in Creativity

• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  Abraham Maslow

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  Tags in Themselves, Selling, Human, Men And Women

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accepting, Human, Motivation

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lying, Language, Communication

• 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

  Abraham Maslow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Realism, Affection, Reality

• 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

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Evidence, Human

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  Abraham Maslow

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  Tags in Therapy, Value

• 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.

  Abraham Maslow

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  Tags in Affection, Good, Fact, Security, Feelings, Behavior

• 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, or

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  Tags in Adulthood, Fashion

• If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

  Abraham Maslow

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happiness

Abraham Maslow (29)

Birth:	1st April, 1908
Death:	8th June, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Psychologist

About

Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of self actualization. Maslow was a psychology professor at Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research and Columbia University. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a "bag of symptoms. He died of a heart attack on June 8, 1970.

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