Abraham Maslow Quotes

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

  Abraham Maslow

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  Tags in Dispassionate, Passion

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  Abraham Maslow

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• What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

  Abraham Maslow

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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.

  Abraham Maslow

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• The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

  Abraham Maslow

  Topics in Ability

• 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.

  Abraham Maslow

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• A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

  Abraham Maslow

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• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

  Abraham Maslow

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

  Abraham Maslow

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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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