(158 quotes found)
“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”
Abraham Maslow
“I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”
“About eighty to ninety per cent of the population must be rated about as high in ego-security as the most secure individuals in our society, who comprise perhaps five or ten per cent at most.”
“To objectify our subjective thought so as to be able to look at it and improve it toward perfection. To seek peak experiences.”
“Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.”
Daniel Goleman
“For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities”
“We are being judged by a new yardstick: not just how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how we handle ourselves and each other.”
“Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.”
Albert Bandura
“In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.”
“The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directness serve one well over time.”
