58 result(s) for Abraham Maslow Quotes.
"The key question isn't 'What fosters creativity?' But it is why in God's name isn't everyone creative?"
"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination."
"The fully human person is more beautiful, more exquisite, more rare, and more difficult to understand than any of the lesser or subhuman species."
"The sacred is in the ordinary, the everyday, in one's daily life."
"The great lesson 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, in one's backyard."
"Religions, values, and cultures are arbitrary, certainly very relative."
"If you plan on being less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
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"We can define therapy as a search for value."
"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
"What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization."
"It is as if creativity sets free the riches of the unconscious mind and brings them to the surface of conscious awareness."
"The sacred is in the ordinary, in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family."
"The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do."
"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."
"The key question isn’t ‘What fosters creativity?’ But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative?"
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
"Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth."
"The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices to pay attention to them."
"The good life is not any fixed state. The good life is a process. The direction which constitutes the good life is psychological growth."
"He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail."
"The unfolding, not the infolding of the human being is what's significant for therapy."
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"Almost all creativity involves purposeful play."
"Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth)."
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."
"Be independent of the good opinion of other people."
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."
"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."
"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
"It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to be fully human, to be everything that person can be."
"The sacred is in the ordinary... it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard."
"Learn to be independent of the good opinion of other people."
"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."
"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."
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"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement."
"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."
"We are not in great need, we are in great greed."
"The need for it is no need at all, but one's feelings of fear about the condition are massive."
"A painter, a writer, is a musician, an intellectual has an obligation.'"
"Self-actualizing people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs, and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world."
"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."
"Discontent — or a sense of frustration or incompleteness — is an important step toward self-motivation."
"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."
"Thats what our job is — to restore what you already should have. Christ and the Buddha only, then, can say the good tidings that men do not believe, do not understand: they can say how much men and women can be."
"The subject of much a man can be is better than the topic of something less for win"
"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."
"What a man can be, he must be."
"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."
"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings."
"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."
"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities."
"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."
"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."
"You can only get to heaven by taking life as a sacred gift, and be grateful for the pleasures it brings with it."
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