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Abraham Maslow quotations

  • "To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail."
  • "The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."
  • "The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior."
  • "The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."
  • "We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."
  • "We may define therapy as a search for value."
  • "When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail."
  • "What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."
  • "What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."
  • "It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
  • "If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth."
  • "If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
  • "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
  • "He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail."
  • "A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."
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