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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
Maslow
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We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
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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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In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.
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Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
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We must understand love we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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Whereas the average individuals often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are, self-actualizing individuals have superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general.
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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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Self-actualized 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.
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The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.
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[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.
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Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.
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The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.
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We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.
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Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
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