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Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?
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
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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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Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.
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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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When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
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I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
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Common sense means living in the world as it is today but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.
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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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Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
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