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Abraham Maslow
Age: 62 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 8
Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Brooklyn
New York
Abraham Harold Maslow
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
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Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.
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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.
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We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.
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The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
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Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
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The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
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One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.
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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.
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...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.
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Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
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Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?
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An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.
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It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.
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Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
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