Abraham Maslow
Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.Collection: Girl
The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.Collection: Motivation
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.Collection: Baby
Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?Collection: Creativity
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.Collection: Creativity
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.Collection: Running
Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.Collection: World
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.Collection: Creativity
The peaker learns surely and certainly that life can be worthwhile, that it can be beautiful and valuable. There are ends in life, i.e., experiences which are so precious in themselves as to prove that not everything is a means to some end other than itself.Collection: Beautiful
Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing lightCollection: Fashion
The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Love
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.Collection: Thinking
It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.Collection: God
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.Collection: Children
If 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.Collection: Ocean