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The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

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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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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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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The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.
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I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
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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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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?
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To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing
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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.
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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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If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.
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Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after all, come sometimes to anyone. But, so to speak, to take up residence on the high plateau .... that is another matter altogether. That tends to be a lifelong effort.
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We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?
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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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One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.
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What one can be, one must be!
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The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
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