American - Psychologist | April 1, 1908 - June 8, 1970
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow
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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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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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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 a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
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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.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
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