Abraham Harold Maslow quotes Born: 04/01/1908 Died: 06/08/1970 Country: usa

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. (Abraham Harold Maslow) [change/change/awareness]
• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. (Abraham Harold Maslow) [music/artist/]
• The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. (Abraham Harold Maslow) [ability/present/moment]
• If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. (Abraham Harold Maslow) [problem]
• We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. (Abraham Harold Maslow) [position/direction]
• What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. (Abraham Harold Maslow)
• Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes. (Abraham Harold Maslow) [conversation/consequence/amount/control]
• To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. (Abraham Harold Maslow) [look]
• “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 Harold Maslow) [being/being/willpower]
• “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [music/artist/]
• “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [change/change/awareness]
• “It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, treat everything as if it were a nail.” (Abraham Harold Maslow)
• “We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [fear/fear/more]
• “The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [ability/present/moment]
• “I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [find]
• “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 Harold Maslow) [land]
• “The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [human/men/women]
• “The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [people/wish/security/give]
• “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.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [love/truth/trust/willpower]
• “We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [position/direction]
• “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.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [behavior/human/being/defense]
• “To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [look]
• “The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point : This can be done.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [life/life/power/experience]
• “Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [pleasure]
• “The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis. Compulsive-obsessive to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [neurosis/search/form/neurosis]
• “To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [problem]
• “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 Harold Maslow) [possibilities/king]
• “A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting” (Abraham Harold Maslow)
• “We may define therapy as a search for value.” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [search]
• “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 Harold Maslow) [human/being/willpower/health]
• “Even if all these needs are satisfied, we may still often, if not always, expect that a new discontent and restlessness will soon develop, unless the individual is doing what he is fitted for. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [needs/willpower/music/artist]

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