Quotes of Abraham Maslow - somelinesforyou

“ The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ Almost all creativity requires purposeful play. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ 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

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

- Abraham Maslow

“ You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ 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

“ In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ 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

“ We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. ”

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Abraham Maslow

“ One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble? Who was to blame?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it? What can I salvage here?'. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ To objectify our subjective thought so as to be able to look at it and improve it toward perfection. To seek peak experiences. ”

- Abraham Maslow

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

- 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. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ 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. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ 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. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ To objectify our subjective thought so as to be able to look at it and improve it toward perfection. To seek peak experiences. ”

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Abraham Maslow

“ The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the whole humanistic synthesis now; the groundbreaking is done by a few people, and most of the stuff is just routine or mediocr. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. ”

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Abraham Maslow

“ We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ 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. ”

- Abraham Maslow

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

- 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. ”

- Abraham Maslow
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