{"author":"Abraham H. Maslow","author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow","total_quotes":15,"quotes":[{"text":"To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["advance","approving","being","classifying","controverting","disapproving","dueling","evaluating","free-associating","heard","improving","listen","passively","portions","presupposing","rare","really","rebuttal","rehearsing","said","self-effacingly","succeeding","wholly"],"id":7440,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"},{"text":"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 mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["disbelief","explain","gods","good","heroes","sages","statesmen","supernatural","superstition","wisdom","wise"],"id":74691,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"},{"text":"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["change"],"id":88145,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"},{"text":"In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["conflict","growth","improvement","pain","transcendence"],"id":130730,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"},{"text":"Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["adjustment","bad","emotional-stability","good","higher-self","mental-health","pain","self-actualization","stability"],"id":162408,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"},{"text":"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["assumptions","hammer","instrumentalism","problem-solving","psychology","science","temptation"],"id":163976,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"},{"text":"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["desire","psychology","self-awareness","understanding"],"id":181837,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"},{"text":"The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["gratitude","thanksgiving","wonder"],"id":268029,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"},{"text":"It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["management-theory","psychology"],"id":279263,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"},{"text":"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.","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["inspirational","psychology"],"id":297667,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}