Abraham Maslow Quotes

Famous Quotes by Abraham Maslow

• "What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."  —Abraham Maslow on Awareness
• "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."  —Abraham Maslow on Inspirational
• "The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."  —Abraham Maslow on Inspirational
• "Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."  —Abraham Maslow on Inspirational
• "When the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail."  —Abraham Maslow on Inspirational
• "To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail."  —Abraham Maslow on Perspective

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Abraham Maslow (1908-04-01 â" 1970-06-08) was an American psychologist.

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• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
  • Motivation and Personality (1954)
• I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
  • The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance (1966), p. 15 ; although probably invented by one of Maslow's mentors, Michael Polanyi, this metaphor was made popular by Maslow himself to describe some fundamental errors in human perception.
• Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
  • The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971)

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• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
• Victory depends on whether or not a duelist has the courage to fight until the bitter end.
• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
• If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
• The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within-and make the point: This can be done.
• The good society is one in which virtue pays.
• What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?
• Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

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