In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish.… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you've got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationships, to discover the answer to the problem within the problem itself. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
...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,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image