Best Quotes by Abraham Maslow (Top 10)
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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
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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.
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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.
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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This weed we call self-actualization….It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. For instance, injustice, unfairness or inconsistency in the parents seems to make a child feel anxious and unsafe. This attitude may not be so mu
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He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
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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.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
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Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
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When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
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