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Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

Abraham Maslow

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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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Learning
Knowing
Fear

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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 from within — and make the point: This can be done.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves
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Man is a perpetually wanting animal.
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It is vital that people count their blessings: to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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.
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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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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 fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.
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There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige
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Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.
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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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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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One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
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Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
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Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing
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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.
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You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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