To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIt isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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.
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What one can be, one must be!
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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