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| If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. | | Determination | |
| If physiological needs are relatively well gratified, there then emerges a new set of needs, which we can categorize roughly as safety needs. All that has been said of the physiological needs is equally true, although in a lesser degree, of these des | | Uncategorized | |
| If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Truth | |
| If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Children; Family; Parents | |
| 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, | | Generosity; Honesty; Innocence; Work | |
| It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, treat everything as if it were a nail. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is too simple to say `man is basically good' or `man is basically evil'. The correct way would be to say `man can become good (probably) and better and better, under a hierarchy of better and better conditions, but also it is very easy, even easie | | Mankind | |
| Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoate or embryonic form, just exactly as he has embryonic arms and legs. And creativeness, spontaneity, selfhood | | Mankind | |
| One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. | | Potential | |
| Religion becomes. a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection. | | Religion | |
| The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. | | Ability | |
| The beautiful programme of Watson. its fatal flaw is that it's good for the lab and in the lab; but you put it on and take it off like a lab coat. It does not generate an image of man, a philosophy of life, a conception of human nature. It's not a gu | | Uncategorized | |
| The desire to know and to understand are themselves connotative, i.e. have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the `basic needs' we have already discussed. | | Knowledge | |
| The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. | | Affection; Humanity; Wishes | |
| The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the whole humanistic synthesis now; the groundbreaking is done by a few people, and most of the stuff is just routine or mediocr | | Mankind | |
| The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis. Compulsive-obsessive to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear. | | Uncategorized | |
| The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. | | Uncategorized | |
