If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. Abraham Maslow More Quotes by Abraham Maslow More Quotes From Abraham Maslow 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 Abraham Maslow independence achievement desire I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it. Abraham Maslow real acceptance love 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 Abraham Maslow creativity healthy self I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us! Abraham Maslow links missing men We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. Abraham Maslow aspect peak-experiences fear What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave? Abraham Maslow peak-experiences slave thinking The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost. Abraham Maslow work facts people 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. Abraham Maslow creativity inspirational thinking 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. Abraham Maslow rejection wish mean All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. Abraham Maslow growth change baby 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. Abraham Maslow choices self moving There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. Abraham Maslow taken baby men It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. Abraham Maslow blessing loss people Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand. Abraham Maslow creative hands people An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished. Abraham Maslow car stupidity god A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. Abraham Maslow routine children world 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. Abraham Maslow home baby children Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction. Abraham Maslow internals experience world When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail. Abraham Maslow hammers nails problem He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail. Abraham Maslow hammers nails thinking
