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 MASLOWWe have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe 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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf 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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIt isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
ABRAHAM MASLOWA musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIt 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 MASLOWDon’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne’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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWhat 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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWCreativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
ABRAHAM MASLOWBe independent of the good opinion of other people.
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