Abraham Maslow

“הדבר הטוב ביותר שאדם יכול לעשות הוא לנסות להיות כן לחלוטין עם עצמו.”

“אחת ממטרות החינוך צריכה להיות ללמד את ערך החיים.”

“אם כל מה שיש לך זה פטיש, הכול מתחיל להיראות כמו מסמר.”

“מימוש עצמי הוא אינדיבידואלי, כי כל אדם הוא שונה.”

“האדם הוא מה שהוא ומה שהוא רוצה להיות בו זמנית.”

“הבנה היא הכלל המהותי של אהבה.”

“מה שצריך כדי שאדם ישתנה הוא שינוי במודעות לעצמו.”

“I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.”

“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.”

“But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.”

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”

“Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.”

“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”

“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”

“Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.”

“Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.”