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It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Abraham Maslow
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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.
Abraham Maslow
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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.
Abraham Maslow
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow
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When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
Abraham Maslow
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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
53% of people like this quote
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.
Abraham Maslow
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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.
Abraham Maslow
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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.
Abraham Maslow
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Abraham Maslow
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
Abraham Maslow
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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.
Abraham Maslow
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
Abraham Maslow
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