Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslowwas an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization. Maslow was a psychology professor at Alliant International University, Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research, and Columbia University. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a "bag of symptoms." A Review of General Psychology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 April 1908
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.
The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.
Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
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.
It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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.
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.