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Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist born on April 1, 1908, and died on June 8, 1970. He was a pioneer in humanistic psychology and proposed Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which had a profound impact on the field of psychology.

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“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.”

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“You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.”

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“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.”

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“Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.”

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Book:Motivation and Personality

Source: Motivation and Personality

“As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.”

“One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.”

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“Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.”

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“Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."”

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“Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.”

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Author:Abraham Maslow

About the Author

Born: April 1, 1908
Died: June 8, 1970
Known for: Psychologist
Quotes: 157

Books & Sources

Toward a Psychology of BeingRelated source material

The Maslow Business ReaderRelated source material

Motivation and PersonalityRelated source material

Maslow on managementRelated source material

A Theory of Human MotivationRelated source material

Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham MaslowRelated source material

On Dominance, Self-Esteem, and Self-ActualizationRelated source material

American politics and humanistic psychologyRelated source material

The healthy personality: readingsRelated source material

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