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Abraham Maslow QuotesAfter working on a number of white papers about Maslow's Needs Hierarchy, I thought it would be a nice idea to add a few Abraham Maslow Quotes.
Here are a few of the Maslow quotes I've become most fond of. See if they tickle your fancy as much as they do mine.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
A husband's conviction that his wife is beautiful, or a wife's firm belief that her husband is courageous, to some extent creates the beauty or the
courage. This is not so much a perception of something that already exists as a bringing into existence by belief.
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
Even the 'bad' choice is 'good for' the neurotic chooser.
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
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.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Sickness might consist of not having symptoms when you should.
The good society is one in which virtue pays.
The lover perceives in the beloved what no one else can.
The more evolved and psychologically healthy people get, the more will enlightened management policy be necessary in order to survive in
competition and the more handicapped will be an enterprise with an authoritarian policy.
The really bright student, the eager questioner, the probing searcher, especially if he is brighter than his teacher, is too often seen as a
'wise guy,' a threat to discipline, a challenger of his teacher's authority.
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?
Who is to say that a lack of love is less important than a lack of vitamins?
</list>Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 @ 9:04 PM | 0 Comments Marilyn and BobbyI just added, due to popular demand, a bunch of Marilyn Monroe and Bob Marley quotes. Yeah, I know, not quite the Marilyn and Bobby you were thinking of -- but that's me: Captain Irony. I had a bunch of placeholder pages, and people were headed there, ever-so-saddened by the lack of actual quotes on those pages. But nevermore (Raven) -- their needs will now be fulfilled. I've also been adding some more dimension to a number of the quotes providing interpretations and backstories for them to make the quote more meaningful and moving. Posted Saturday, August 18, 2007 @ 8:50 AM | 0 Comments Wilde about QuotesSeeing a number of people looking for some Oscar Wilde quotes on Weddings and Marriage, I decided to seriously beef up the inventory of Oscar Wilde quotes here on Famous Quotes. I added all that I could find about relationships, love, marriage, etc, 117 of them, to be exact. (Update: There are now 211 of them -- and I think I'm done.) The man was quite prolific, so it will take some time to get all of his quotes added.
Also, I've seen a few people trying to comment on some of the quotes, but apparently, they're getting an error or something. I'm working on that, and hope to have it resolved in the near future. Posted Monday, July 30, 2007 @ 3:00 PM | 0 Comments Henry Ford and Dates of BirthThere have been quite a few new Henry Ford Quotes added. They're not all categorized as perfectly as they could, so please feel free to send me your suggestions as far as where the various quotes should go and into what categories the saying should be filed. In addition, the biographies are being updated a bit, as well as the birth date and date of passing. Posted Wednesday, July 25, 2007 @ 9:10 AM | 0 Comments ReawakeningI have finally completed this massive project I've been working on at my J.O.B. and now have more time to allocate to my favorite hobby: researching and compiling famous quotes! Look forward to more activity in the near future. Posted Thursday, July 12, 2007 @ 1:53 PM | 0 Comments Graduation QuotesYeah, I know it's late, and I missed the boat, but I added a few Graduation Quotes that I found interesting. Posted Monday, May 29, 2006 @ 4:53 PM | 0 Comments Best Friends and Unknown AuthorsAdded quotes to Best Friend Quotes, and created a logging class, so I can see the quote sections people are going to. This should help me better understand everyone's interests, enabling me to fill the greater demand sections sooner.
In populating the Best Friend Quotes, I stumbled across a new concept -- that of the "Unknown author." Apparently, the quote gets bastardized by one citer after another, passing them around through email chains or what-have-you, each causing further obfuscation of the original author and/or original quote itself.
So, rather than having a specific "author" referred to as the "unknown author" cf:unknown comic, it seems rather that this author is a non-author, so to speak. And as such, this author shouldn't have it's own page and list of all quotes by them, and so forth. Does that seem reasonable?
Let me know your thoughts on this.
Here's the affected quote: Good friends are like stars. Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 @ 10:13 AM | 0 Comments Authors list and Author BreadcrumbsThe Authors page now actually shows all of the authors. How about that? They're even ordered by surname. Crazy!
I'm going to put something in there so that there's a listing of all the various first letters of the last names, so that there's a form of "guide words" navigation.
Also added is slightly more effective breadcrumb navigation for topics and authors. I'm a little torn about how to handle breadcrumb navigation for the actual quotes, as they could be considered quotes from an author, quotes by a topic, or quotes with a specific keyword. Perhaps I should put some sort of tracking in there regarding the referrer, so that the breadcrumbs are dynamic depending upon the referring page. That'll be a "later" feature, perhaps. I guess I'll just go with the quotes by Author assumption for now, since there are many topics to which a quote could be associated. Given that, it will require a bit of logic to resolve the specific topic in the breadcrumb path -- and there are many things far less functional which should be added, imho. Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 @ 7:09 AM | 0 Comments Marriage Quotes Added and Profession Converted to Many-to-manyI've added a few Funny Marriage Quotes from Woody Allen, Steve Marting, and Oscar Wilde, just so that the section wouldn't be completely empty any more.
Progressively, I'm going to try to fill these in a little bit whilst slaving away at functionality, which is grossly limited at this time.
Additionally, I've started filling in some of the details for the quote authors, so that they don't all say born and died in 1900, and have the profession of "Loser", which has already been reported by one of the more hypersensitive in our community as "offensive".
As a result, I have changed the generic term which indicates that I need to research their profession now to "Maytag Repairman" -- I hope you will find this less offensive.
During the process of trying to properly list the various professions of these famous quote authors, I have determined that the current one-to-many relationship of author to profession simply will not suffice and have further normalized it to many-to-many. In non-geek, that means I suddenly woke up and realized that an author may have had more than one profession during their lives and fixed things so that I wasn't limited to trying to pick just one. Now, instead, I can list them all. So, now Dwight David Eisenhower can be properly reported as both President and Military Leader, for example. The pages aren't using this new relationship just yet, but the database is ready for it, when I get there.
As always, if you can think of anything super cool to add that isn't already on the menu, please let me know, and I'll add it to the list. Any functionality which is on the menu, but is currently incomplete is already on the list, by the way -- so comments like "Hey, why aren't there any quotes in Graduation Quotes will probably be responded to as well as Bill Cosby addressing a group of Katrina victims.
I also added a bunch of Bill CosbyQuotes for amusement purposes. Posted Saturday, November 19, 2005 @ 3:16 PM | 0 Comments Quote CommentsNow, each quote has its own discussion thread, something like blog comments. Basically, my thought on its usage would be reporting "alternatives" of a given quote that might have been initlally misquoted, and then gained popularity on their own, or interpretations of the quote's intended meaning versus general usage.
Here's an example of how I see it being used:
Perfect is the Enemy of the Good Posted Saturday, November 19, 2005 @ 5:10 AM | 0 Comments
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