Abraham Maslow Quotes

• 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

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  Tags in Accepting, Human, Motivation

• 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

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

  Abraham Maslow

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• 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

• 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

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  Tags in Realism, Affection, Reality

• 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

  Tags in Identity

• 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

  Abraham Maslow

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  Tags in Adulthood, Fashion

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

  Abraham Maslow

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Problem Solving

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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