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Abraham Maslow

b: Brooklyn, New York, USA, Apr 1, 1908

d: Menlo Park, California, USA, Jun 8, 1970

Abraham Harold Maslow was a professor of psychology at Brandeis University who founded humanistic psychology and created Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

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

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.

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.

About eighty to ninety per cent of the population must be rated about as high in ego-security as the most secure individuals in our society, who comprise perhaps five or ten per cent at most.

About eighty to ninety per cent of the population must be rated about as high in ego-security as the most secure individuals in our society, who comprise perhaps five or ten per cent at most.

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.

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.

During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting).

During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting).

Education must be seen as at least partially an effort to produce the good human being, to foster the good life and the good society.

Education must be seen as at least partially an effort to produce the good human being, to foster the good life and the good society.

Existentialism rests on phenomenology, i.e, it uses personal, subjective experience as the foundation upon which abstract knowledge is built.

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 love the truth, you'll trust it – that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

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

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

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.

People who are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

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

The desire to know and to understand are themselves connotative, i.e. have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the `basic needs' we have already discussed.

This Third Psychology is now one facet of a new philosophy of life, a new conception of man, the beginning of a new century of work.

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

Too many of the findings that have been made in animals have been proven to be true for animals, but not for the human being. There is no reason whatsoever why we should start with animals in order to study human motivation.

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

We do what we are and we are what we do.

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.

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.