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«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.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Economics
| Keywords:
accepting, actualization, classic, economic, economic theory, impulse, inadequate, including, motivation, revolutionize, revolutionized, revolutionizing, theory-based, theory of
«If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Children,
Family,
Parents
| Keywords:
babies, experimenting, ferociously, home in, lab, scratch, The Lab, warned
«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' we have already discussed.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
connotative, desire to know, discussed, e'en, i.e., I E, striving
«What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to grow healthy, to its fuller and fullest stature ? Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of hum»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Economics,
Management,
Reward,
Work
| Keywords:
classic, economic theory, fuller, fullers, fullest, hum, humming, Hums, inadequate, management, stature, theory-based, theory of, The Hum
«Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing,»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Generosity,
Honesty,
Innocence,
Work
| Keywords:
candor, common interest, cowardice, disturbing, generosity, gullibility, redefine, redefined, Redefining
«The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the whole humanistic synthesis now; the groundbreaking is done by a few people, and most of the stuff is just routine or mediocr»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
as a matter of fact, carry on, groundbreaking, humanistic, routine, small stuff, synthesis, tip
«Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light, or»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Adulthood,
Fashion
| Keywords:
disturbed, dropped, endangered, flashing, infants, loud noise, react, startled, threatened
«And yet there are also other regressive, fearful, self-diminishing tendencies as well, and it is very easy to forget them in our intoxication with `personal growth', especially for inexperienced youngsters. We must appreciate that many people choose»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
diminishing, fearful, intoxication, regressive, tendencies, youngster, youngsters
«Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoate or embryonic form, just exactly as he has embryonic arms and legs. And creativeness, spontaneity, selfhood»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
capacities, creativeness, embryonic, humanness, inchoate, potentialities, shaped
«I have come to think of this humanist trend in psychology as a revolution in the truest, oldest sense of the word; the sense in which Galileo, Darwin, Einstein, Freud and Marx made revolutions, i.e. new ways of perceiving and thinking, new images of»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Psychology
| Keywords:
Darwin, e'en, Einstein, Freud, Galileo, humanist, humanists, i.e., I E, Marx, oldest, perceiving, psychology, revolutions, trend, truest
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