Abraham Maslow

Psychologist

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Popular and sensitive, with outstanding people skills. Externally focused, with real concern for how others think and feel. Usually dislike being alone. They see everything from the human angle, and dislike impersonal analysis. Very effective at managing people issues, and leading group discussions. Interested in serving others, and probably place the needs of others over their own needs.

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Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.

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Quotes by Abraham Maslow

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

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

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

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

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

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

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.

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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