Abraham Maslow quotes

1. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
2. If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably
be unhappy all the days of your life.
3. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately
at peace with himself.
4. What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
5. It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer; treat everything as if it were a nail.
6. We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to
know the godlike in ourselves
7. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
8. I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.”
9. If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles
away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
10. The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short….
11. The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their
wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will
give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
12. If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect,
orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.
13. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.

14. But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of

concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of
hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

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15. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
16. The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the
power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these
impulse voices from within - and make the point: This can be done.
17. Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
18. The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-
obsessive neurosis. Compulsive-obsessive to frantically order and stabilize the world so that
no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.”
19. To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
20. One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's
own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a
king.
21. A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting
22. We may define therapy as a search for value.
23. All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every
human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active wil toward
health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization”
24. Even if all these needs are satisfied, we may still often, if not always, expect that a new
discontent and restlessness will soon develop, unless the individual is doing what he is fitted
for. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet.

25. A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to

want a predictable, orderly world. For instance, injustice, unfairness or
inconsistency in the parents seems to make a child feel anxious and
unsafe. This attitude may not be so mu.
26.A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
27. During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-
rejecting).”
28. 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 cycle already described will
repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl
29.Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these
experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation,
of naming, etc. With the consequence that it immediately becomes possible
for a certain amount of C.

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30. There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for
confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly,
we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as
respect or es”
31. “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.”
32. “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.”
33. 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.”
34. “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”
35.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,
36. 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 mediocre.
37. “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”
38. 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
39.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
40.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.

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1. Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they
are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity
gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity
makes life more fun and more interesting.
2. I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - This is a somewhat new kind of religion.
3. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
4. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
5. Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones
either.”

6. Force always attracts men of low morality.

7. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
8. The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
9. The man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of
thinking
10.Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to
all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire
world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
11. Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think
with their minds.

Castes inherit unthinkingness to sustain the oppression/exploitation, Castes devitalize humanity.

De-Caste Concept revitalizes the Human Personality.
Thinking Skill is Life-Skill.
I honour and wish the greatness in you, means Jai Bhim.
Dheemant P R Ambedkar
Director General

Mahanayak Kanshiramji School of Thinking

C-4/207, Natasha Enclave, NIBM, Pune-411048; M: 9822406581; Ph: 020 26835230

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 John Dewey quotes
American Philosopher, Psychologist and Educator, 1859-1952
1. Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
2. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future
living.
3. Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a
preparation for life but is life itself.
4. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
5. We only think when we are confronted with a problem
6. The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation
through choice of action.
7. Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates
to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and
contriving.
8. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
9. School is not preparation for life, but school is life
10.We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but
freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos
11. The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the
object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot
be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man
is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of
social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably
distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
12. We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general.
Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, and unique.
13. The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is
moving to become better
14. Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind

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15. To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the
key to happiness
16. Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the
intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
17. To me faith means not worrying.
18. Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
19. Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire.
20. Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and
compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is
compelled to surrender their logical basis.
21. Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our
powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own
full and unique meaning.
22. No man's credit is as good as his money.
23. The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It
requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
24. One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in
one's heart.
25.The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of
intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment,
exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The
commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with
freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.
26. Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility,
curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms,
familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish
waterproof to new ideas.
27. Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all
response is the desire to control environment.
28. The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the
press and the schools
29.There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers,
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30. When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to
their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result
31. By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a
shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
32. It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed
dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically
associated
33.A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of
associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
34.The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of
anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular
theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of
religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of
both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in
religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals"
from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice--all testify to the
necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.
35. As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure”
36. The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in
spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.”
37. For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks
that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention”
38. The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself”
39. To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure and opportunity to do it is the key to
happiness”
40.Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

I honour and wish the greatness in you, means Jai Bhim.

Dheemant P R Ambedkar
Director General

Mahanayak Kanshiramji School of Thinking

C-4/207, Natasha Enclave, NIBM, Pune-411048; M: 9822406581; Ph: 020 26835230

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 Edward de Bono quotes
Maltese Psychologist and Writer, leading authority in field of Creative Thinking. b.1933

1. If you never change your mind, why have one?

2. Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order
to look at things in a different way.
3. If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the
crowd.

4. Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

5. We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary
structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of
experience.
6. One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop
and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This
simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for
granted is a powerful source of creativity.....
7. Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception
rather than mistakes of logic.
8. Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at
in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of
action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
9. Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain
10. An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions

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 and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to
and what to ignore.
11. Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of
average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is
separate from the way the car is driven.
12. It
has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have
paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than
reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor
process is involved in changing them.
13. People should realize we're jerks just like them.
14. The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make
useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get
use out of it.
15. Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school
graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new
ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can
only see what it is prepared to see.

16. Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that
they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment.
This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive
even in tiny ways.
17. Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents
and our expectations
18. Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered.
Such ideas need to be produced.
19. Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary

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 waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any
justification for things being complex when they could be
simple.
20. Amemory is what is left when something happens and does not
completely not happen.
21. The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas

22. Ina sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because

they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then
insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we
should be doing better.
23. Inthe future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will
be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If
you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be
prepared to deal with various possible futures.
24. Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect
stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
25. Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die.
Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
26. To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very
talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

I honour and wish the greatness in you, means Jai Bhim.

Dheemant P R Ambedkar
Director General

Mahanayak Kanshiramji School of Thinking

C-4/207, Natasha Enclave, NIBM, Pune-411048; M: 9822406581; Ph: 020 26835230

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