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.- Abraham Maslow
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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.
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.
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 will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
