Talk:Abraham Maslow

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Abraham Maslow page.
Please sign and date your posts using four tildes (~~~~). New discussion topics go at the bottom of the page; click here to start a new topic. New to Wikiquote? Welcome! Frequently asked questions. This is not a forum for general discussion about the page's subject.	Talk page guidelines Be polite Assume good faith No personal attacks Don't bite the newcomers!

---

I am looking for the exact wording of an Abraham Maslow quote that goes something like:

- After a lifetime of working as a psychotherapist, the only happy adults I know are those who belive that the work they are doing is meaningful. -

Anyone know the exact wording?

Thanks.

—This unsigned comment is by 207.69.139.153 (talk • contribs) .

Did Maslow Say This?

A common quote attributed to Maslow is "We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings." Did he say it? It seems rather facile, one could easily retort "yeah, what's your point? We also have our abandonments, aggressions, burnouts, ignorances, passivities, inabilities, apprehensions, occupations, indolences, abstractions, fatigues, indifferences, habits, weaknesses...."

—This unsigned comment is by 203.51.103.134 (talk • contribs) .

Unsourced

Published sources should be provided before moving these back into the article

• Victory depends on whether or not a duelist has the courage to fight until the bitter end.

Wrong assignment?!

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization. This term, first coined by Kurt Goldstein, is being used in this paper in a much more specific and limited fashion. It refers to the desire for self-fulfillment, namely, to the tendency for him to become actualized in what he is potentially. This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming. As is says, this is from Maslow's paper in 1943. I don't know if it's also printed in his later textbook. But the origin is early. regards, --WissensDürster (talk) 11:06, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

What is the tree of life doing on this page?

The picture of the Jewish tree of life diagram does not seem relevant to the content of the page. I recommend that it be removed. 67.135.50.5 17:30, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Unsourced

The following quotes need to be better sourced - Goodreads does not suffice and does not provide original sources for quotes.

• We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
  • Attributed to Maslow by Toni Galardi in The LifeQuake Phenomenon: How to Thrive (Not Just Survive) in Times of Personal and Global Upheaval (2009). Also to be found in other self-help books and on many quotes sites, but always without citation.
• “To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”[1]
• “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”[2]
• “It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”[3]
• “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.”[4]
• “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”[5]
• “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”[6]
• “We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen[7]
• “Be independent of the good opinion of other people.”[8]
• “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”[9]
• “Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology,[10]
• “I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”[11]
• “Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.”[12]
• “In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”[13]
• “What one can be, one must be!”[14]
• “If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.”[15]
• “The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.”[16]
• “Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.”[17]
• We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments,[18]
• It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind[19]
• “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.”[20]
• “Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.”[21]
• “False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.”[22]
• “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.”[23]
• “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.”[24]
• “The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.”[25]
• “Not allowing people to go through their pain, and protecting them from it, may turn out to be a kind of over-protection[26]
• “Every human being has both sets of forces within him[27]
• “The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative?[28]
• “The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.”[29]