It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
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