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Abraham Maslow Quotes

«What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.»
«He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.»
«When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.»
«I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.»
«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 physiological needs are relatively well gratified, there then emerges a new set of needs, which we can categorize roughly as safety needs. All that has been said of the physiological needs is equally true, although in a lesser degree, of these des»
«It is too simple to say `man is basically good' or `man is basically evil'. The correct way would be to say `man can become good (probably) and better and better, under a hierarchy of better and better conditions, but also it is very easy, even easie»
«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.»
«To objectify our subjective thought so as to be able to look at it and improve it toward perfection. To seek peak experiences.»
«I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.»

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