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Needs Quotes by Abraham Maslow
- We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that…
- When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of…
- Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
- People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love…
- If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole…
- What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
- Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just,…
- 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,…
- 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).…
- Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be,…
- The desire to know and to understand are themselves connotative, i.e. have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the 'basic needs'…
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