It is as if Freud supplied us the sick half of psychology and we must now fill it out with the healthy half.
Psychologists
Abraham Maslow
American psychologist (1908-1970). Father of humanistic psychology — the "third force" after psychoanalysis and behaviorism. His hierarchy of needs and self-actualization shaped management and education beyond academia.
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Abraham Maslow's Other Quotes
What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
-- Abraham Maslow
How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?
-- Charles de Gaulle
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
-- Nikita Khrushchev
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
-- John F. Kennedy
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-- John F. Kennedy