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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must

write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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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 Maslow

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of

Type: concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of
Psychologist Quotes hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Category: Abraham Maslow
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Date of Birth: Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of
April 1, 1908 human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality
Date of Death: of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization
June 8, 1970 and the love for the highest values.
Nationality: Abraham Maslow
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Citation He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

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Erik Erikson If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a
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Top 10 Authors: Abraham Maslow
1. Buddha
2. Marilyn Monroe If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being,
3. John Wooden
you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
4. Mother Teresa
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5. Albert Einstein
6. Thomas Jefferson
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat
7. Abraham Lincoln
8. Maya Angelou everything as if it were a nail.
9. Winston Churchill Abraham Maslow
10. Dalai Lama
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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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and
security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings
and their behavior.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling
themselves short.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters

begins to look like a nail.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves,

but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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