Abraham Maslow Quotations

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A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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.
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as 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.
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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 story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
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.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.