Abraham Maslow Quotes about Creativity

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Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness,

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

Abraham Maslow

Success, Creativity, Self

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

Abraham Maslow

Children, Creativity, Birth

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Abraham Maslow

Confidence, Fear, Creativity

Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Abraham Maslow

Food, Creativity, Creative

Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

Abraham Maslow

Creativity, Psychological Health, Self

Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone creative?'

Abraham Maslow

Creativity, Keys, Creative

Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

Abraham Maslow

Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing

Abraham Maslow

Creativity, Self, Healthy

Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.187, John Wiley & Sons

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

Abraham Maslow

Creativity, Lightning, Moments

Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?

Abraham Maslow

Creativity, People, Might

Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons