QUOTATIONS by AUTHOR
Adaptability
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
-Abraham Maslow
Change
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
-Abraham Maslow
Identity
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
-Abraham 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 Maslow
Mind, the
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
-Abraham Maslow
Peace
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.
-Abraham Maslow
Perspective
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
-Abraham Maslow
Potential
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering
-Abraham Maslow
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
-Abraham Maslow
Problems
-Abraham Maslow , The Psychology of Science (Harper and Row, New York) , 1966
Sadness
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.
-Abraham Maslow
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