The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection a...
ABRAHAM MASLOW We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOW Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one meth...
ABRAHAM MASLOW If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-J...
ABRAHAM MASLOW I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
ABRAHAM MASLOW We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the go...
ABRAHAM MASLOW But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as...
ABRAHAM MASLOW One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up t...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taug...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...
ABRAHAM MASLOW If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all t...
ABRAHAM MASLOW He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, treat everything as if it were a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly wo...
ABRAHAM MASLOW To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW When the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our min...
ABRAHAM MASLOW The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
ABRAHAM MASLOW A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...
ABRAHAM MASLOW The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
ABRAHAM MASLOW Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the i...
ABRAHAM MASLOW We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at...
ABRAHAM MASLOW What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
ABRAHAM MASLOW Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be broug...
ABRAHAM MASLOW If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be...
ABRAHAM MASLOW What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
ABRAHAM MASLOW Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this t...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolu...
ABRAHAM MASLOW What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the g...
ABRAHAM MASLOW All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human b...
ABRAHAM MASLOW What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans toget...
ABRAHAM MASLOW The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... ...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred...
ABRAHAM MASLOW It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have...
ABRAHAM MASLOW What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or p...
ABRAHAM MASLOW If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and just...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
ABRAHAM MASLOW If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think the...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
ABRAHAM MASLOW You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understan...
ABRAHAM MASLOW The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for aff...
ABRAHAM MASLOW White-Headed Chief was wealthy, even though he owned nothing. In what way did virtue pay ? The men w...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Even if all these needs are satisfied, we may still often, if not always, expect that a new disconte...
ABRAHAM MASLOW I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is n...
ABRAHAM MASLOW During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-reje...
ABRAHAM MASLOW A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting
ABRAHAM MASLOW The great lesson from the true mystics is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found...
ABRAHAM MASLOW The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive n...
ABRAHAM MASLOW The beautiful programme of Watson. its fatal flaw is that it's good for the lab and in the lab; but ...
ABRAHAM MASLOW If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge lov...
ABRAHAM MASLOW This Third Psychology is now one facet of a new philosophy of life, a new conception of man, the beg...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Religion becomes. a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is rai...
ABRAHAM MASLOW If physiological needs are relatively well gratified, there then emerges a new set of needs, which w...
ABRAHAM MASLOW The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is w...
ABRAHAM MASLOW If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be broug...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialit...
ABRAHAM MASLOW About eighty to ninety per cent of the population must be rated about as high in ego-security as the...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Too many of the findings that have been made in animals have been proven to be true for animals, but...
ABRAHAM MASLOW We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the go...
ABRAHAM MASLOW If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away,...
ABRAHAM MASLOW There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face ...
ABRAHAM MASLOW Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surfac...
ABRAHAM MASLOW I have come to think of this humanist trend in psychology as a revolution in the truest, oldest sens...
ABRAHAM MASLOW You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety
ABRAHAM MASLOW The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
ABRAHAM MASLOW Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes l...
ABRAHAM MASLOW I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. ...
ABRAHAM MASLOW To objectify our subjective thought so as to be able to look at it and improve it toward perfection....
ABRAHAM MASLOW The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of exp...
ABRAHAM MASLOW One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own ...
ABRAHAM MASLOW I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
ABRAHAM MASLOW All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human b...
ABRAHAM MASLOW I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
ABRAHAM MASLOW We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesme...
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW The question of desirable grief and pain or the necessity for it must also be faced. [Are] growth an...
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a...
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly an...
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, cl...
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW Even if you have just half an hour, you can get a good workout. So I try to make it count no matter ...
JAMES MASLOW Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be ...
JAMES MASLOW I'd love to open up sessions at a Boys and Girls Club or something where kids can learn nutritio...
JAMES MASLOW We strongly urge the two governments to take bold steps in order to start implementation of solution...
ABRAHAM ABRAHAM I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not plea...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I shou...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The le...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by c...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy s...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain'...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Some day I shall be President.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest r...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should neve...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only s...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my li...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, f...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive conce...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fo...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
ABRAHAM CAHAN If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
ABRAHAM CAHAN How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible wort...
ABRAHAM CAHAN Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I di...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be bec...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of ...
ABRAHAM VERGHESE A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of men...
KARL ABRAHAM Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inh...
KARL ABRAHAM Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the d...
KARL ABRAHAM A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neur...
KARL ABRAHAM Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychologi...
KARL ABRAHAM The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed ...
KARL ABRAHAM Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural simi...
KARL ABRAHAM Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to vi...
KARL ABRAHAM When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibit...
KARL ABRAHAM Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child wil...
KARL ABRAHAM In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
KARL ABRAHAM The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that any...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver...
JOHN ABRAHAM I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fai...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Property is the fruit of laborproperty is desirableis a positive good in the world. That some should...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption o...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me great...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You have heard the story, havent you, about the man who was tarred and feathered and carried out of ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he the president is the representative of the people. H...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Senator Stephen Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who ha...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main m...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the arm...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, ar...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know t...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocab...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race In the sweat of thy face ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It is better, then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain itkeep it....
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The most notable feature of a disturbance in your city last summer, was the hanging of some working ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible....
ABRAHAM LINCOLN All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth in their mili...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He said that he felt like the boy that stumped his toe,it hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by inte...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Dear Madam,I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safegu...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently ha...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I wou...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Singular indeed that the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one amon...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN This extraordinary war in which we are engaged falls heavily upon all classes of people, but the mos...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his countrys cause. Honor also to the...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN