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Quotations by author » Abraham Maslow
American Philosopher and Psychologist, 1908-1970
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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.
Life
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 (defining it as respect or es
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This Third Psychology is now one facet of a new philosophy of life, a new conception of man, the beginning of a new century of work.
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To objectify our subjective thought so as to be able to look at it and improve it toward perfection. To seek peak experiences.
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To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
Problems
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Too many of the findings that have been made in animals have been proven to be true for animals, but not for the human being. There is no reason whatsoever why we should start with animals in order to study human motivation.
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We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
Talent
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
TherapyValue
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to grow healthy, to its fuller and fullest stature ? Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of hum
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
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When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
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White-Headed Chief was wealthy, even though he owned nothing. In what way did virtue pay ? The men who were formally generous in this way were the most admired, most respected, and the most loved men in the tribe. These were the men who benefited the
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