Abraham Maslow

Found 12 thoughts of Abraham Maslow

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

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

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

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.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

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

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

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

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