Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist especially known for his theory of the hierarchy of needs, also known as Maslow's pyramid. It is in his works Motivation and Personality Y The Self-Realized Man: Towards a Psychology of Being where he argued that each person has a scale of needs that he has to satisfy, from basic needs to self-realization.
He studied psychology at the University of Wisconsin and was an apprentice to Harry Harlow, another of the most influential psychologists in history. After beginning teaching at Brooklyn College in 1937, he studied Gestalt psychology.
During the 1950s he began to be one of the driving psychologists of humanistic psychology and his research was known to psychologists around the world.
To better understand his ideas, we have compiled a compilation of Maslow's phrases that best explain his research and conclusions. The highlight of his thinking is that he broke with Skinner and Freud, since he thought that their theories focused too much on negative or pathological aspects of people.
He also considered that these theories did not take into account the potential of human beings to develop personally. In short, Maslow's theories focused more on knowing the positive aspect of people, how to develop the potential of each one and achieve well-being.
-Will you walk forward to growth or walk backward to safety.
-I may feel a bit guilty about the past and apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act.
-The most beautiful destiny, the most wonderful luck that any human being can have is to be paid to do what they love to do.
-The people we classify as sick are those who are not themselves, who have created all kinds of neurotic defenses.
-Growth and improvement can come from pain and conflict.
-Satisfying one need creates another.
-The sacred is in the ordinary. Found in daily life, in neighbors, in friends, in family, in the backyard.
-If I was thrown out of a plane into an ocean and told that the nearest land is thousands of miles away, I would still swim. And I would despise the one who would surrender.
-Man needs to live in beauty more than in ugliness, just as he needs to have food for his hungry stomach or rest for his tired stomach..
-The healthiest self-esteem is based on the respect deserved by others rather than external fame, celebrity or flattery.
-If you only have a hammer, you tend to see all problems as a nail.
-We must teach people to pay attention to their own tastes. Many don't.
-The real question is whether human development is possible without love.
-An interesting question is not "why do people believe?" but "why don't people create or innovate?".
-The novice can often see things that the expert cannot. What is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes or appearing naive.
-One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious..
-Most of us could be better than we really are.
-People are not bad, they are unhappy.
-Every man can be a king, and must, therefore, be treated like a king.
-Something like human curiosity can be easily observed in higher animals.
-We could define therapy as a search for value.
-What a man can be, he should be. We call this need self-realization.
-What you have to do is not be afraid of mistakes, give your best, waiting to learn enough from mistakes to be able to correct them eventually.
-In virtually all human beings, and almost all newborns, there is an active will, a drive toward health, growth, and fulfillment..
-Human life can never be understood if its highest aspirations are not taken into account.
-A baby is only potentially a human being and must acquire its humanity in society and culture, in the family.
-Seeing is better than being blind, even if it hurts.
-Self-realization means experiencing fully and selflessly, with total concentration and absorption.
-The proof that wonderful people can and do exist is enough to give you courage, hope, strength to keep fighting..
-We must be aware not only of the divine possibilities in us, but also of the existential human limitations.
-The truly good therapist, even if he advocates a Freudian pessimistic theory, acts as if development is possible.
-Internal and external problems tend to be profoundly similar and mutually related..
-Life is a continuous process of choosing between safety and risk. Take the growth choice a dozen times a day.
-Does health mean being symptom free? I deny it.
-Human nature is not as bad as you think.
-You must buy the best product. The best person should be rewarded.
-We can be oriented towards defense, security or fear. But, on the opposite side, there is the option of growth.
-We must understand love, we must be able to teach it, create it, predict it, or else the world is lost in hostility and suspicion..
-If you plan to be anything less than you are capable of, you will probably be unhappy every day of your life..
-Self-actualized people have a deep sense of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general..
-A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write. What a man can be, must be.
-Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
-It is not normal to know what we want. It's a strange and difficult psychological achievement.
-Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be safe in their feelings and behaviors..
-The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental health.
-What needs to change in a person is self-awareness.
-It scares us to become what we envision in our best moments, in the most perfect conditions and with the greatest courage..
-The question of the need for pain and grief must be faced. Is growth and a sense of wholeness possible without the pain, grief, grief, and problems??
-When people appear to be anything but good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress or deprivation of needs such as security, love and self-esteem..
-The concept of creativity and that of a healthy, self-actualized and fully human person are becoming closer to each other and may turn out to be the same.
-Most of the time we do not listen to each other, but we listen to the introjected voices of mom, dad, the system, the elders, authority or tradition.
-One cannot choose wisely in life, unless he dares to listen to himself, to his own self, in every moment of his life..
-It must be recognized that many people choose the worst over the best, that growth is often a painful process.
-My opinion is that a perfect human being is not possible, not even conceivable, but that all human beings are much more improvable than is believed.
-Only he who respects fear and defense can teach; only those who respect health can perform therapeutic work.
-The person free from anxiety can be bolder and more courageous: can investigate and theorize per se.
-The study of motivation must be, in part, the study of the ends, desires or the ultimate needs of the human being.
-Satisfaction of the need for self-esteem leads to feelings of self-confidence, worth, strength, ability, and sufficiency, of being useful and necessary in the world..
-We would never want to compose music or create mathematical systems, or decorate our houses, or be well dressed, if our stomach was empty at all hours, or if we were continually dying of thirst..
-As incomes increase, people actively desire and strive for things that they would never have dreamed of a few years earlier..
-The most important problems of the greatest and best characters in the history of mankind must be covered and explained.
-If all needs are unsatisfied, and the organism is therefore dominated by physiological needs, the remaining needs may simply be non-existent or be displaced to the background..
-Studies of mentally healthy people indicate that, as a defining characteristic, they are attracted to the mysterious, the unknown, the chaotic, the disorganized, and the unexplained.
-Psychopathological effects are probably true when basic needs are frustrated.
-We must not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages, our heroes and statesmen.
-Let people realize that every time they threaten someone, humiliate, harm unnecessarily, dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of a psychopathology.
-For people to recognize that when you are kind, charitable, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate and warm, you are being a psychotherapeutic force, even if it is a small one..
-If people's essence is denied or suppressed, they can become ill obviously, sometimes subtly, sometimes immediately, sometimes over time..
-It seems that there is a common goal for humanity. A goal that all people go towards.
-Seeking miracles is a sign of ignorance, of mistakenly believing that everything is miraculous.
-We have to abandon the sense of wonder at creativity, stop seeing as if it were a miracle every time someone creates something.
-The luckiest are those who have the wonderful ability to appreciate over and over again, in a fresh and innocent way, the basic goods of life, with wonder, pleasure and even ecstasy..
-Not letting people go through pain and protecting them from it can turn into overprotection.
-Being able to listen, really, passively, without presupposing, classifying, evaluating, approving, disapproving, without struggling with what is said, without practicing the rejection response, such a way of listening is rare.
-The need for security, belonging, loving relationships and respect can only be satisfied by other people.
-Most people experience tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy that leaves out either of these two cannot be considered understandable..
-No need can be considered isolated or discrete, each one is related to the state of satisfaction of the others.
-A need depends on the prior satisfaction of another more important or overbearing need.
-If grief and pain are necessary for a person's growth, we have to learn not to protect people from these feelings as if they were always bad..
-Dispassionate objectivity is passion itself.
-We cannot rely on tradition, consensus, cultural habit, unanimity of belief to give us values.
-Orthodox science tries to free itself not only from values but also from emotions. As young people would say, try to be “cool”.
-In the peak moments, the person feels responsible, active, creative center of their activities and their perceptions. It feels like the one who takes the first step.
-There is anthropological evidence indicating that the ultimate or fundamental wishes of all human beings hardly differ from their everyday conscious desires..
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