Abraham Maslow Quotes

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

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• Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety and risk. Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

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• Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

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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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• It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

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

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• If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

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

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

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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

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

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

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• 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.

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  Tags in Affection, Good, Fact, Security, Feelings, Behavior

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

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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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• 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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• 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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  Tags in Determination, Despise

• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

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  Tags in Awfully, Find, Insane, Curious

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

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  Tags in Dispassionate, Passion

Abraham Maslow (29)

Birth:	1st April, 1908
Death:	8th June, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Psychologist

About

Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of self actualization. Maslow was a psychology professor at Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research and Columbia University. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a "bag of symptoms. He died of a heart attack on June 8, 1970.

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