23 Quotations by Abraham Maslow
- 1. “If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. [So ...

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

- 3. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe ...

- 4. But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as ...

- 5. Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really ap ...

- 6. Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

- 7. From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory ...

- 8. He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

- 9. If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, ...

- 10. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

- 11. If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

- 12. It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons st ...

- 13. One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist ...

- 14. One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own ...

- 15. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

- 16. There are no perfect human beings! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible ...

- 17. To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

- 18. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, ...

- 19. What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

- 20. What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

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