“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“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”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“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.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“Be independent of the good opinion of other people.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“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.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“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 H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“What one can be, one must be!”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?
We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“creativeness comes partly out of the unconscious, i.e., is a healthy regression, a temporary turning away from the real world.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
“Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.”
― Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)