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A pedestrian hit me and went under my car.
— Abraham Maslow
Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.
— Abraham Maslow
A van backed through my windscreen into my wife's face.
— Abraham Maslow
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
— Abraham H. Maslow
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
— Abraham Maslow
The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.
— Abraham Maslow
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.
— Abraham Maslow
Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
— Abraham Maslow
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
— Abraham Maslow
Man is a perpetually wanting animal.
— Abraham Maslow
The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.
— Abraham Maslow
Apparently one impression we are making ... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
— Abraham Maslow
Even if you have just half an hour, you can get a good workout. So I try to make it count no matter where I am.
— James Maslow
Looking down from the heights of Maslow's pyramid, it seems inconceivable to us that someone could actually prefer bread to freedom.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
What is life for? Life is for you.
— Abraham Maslow
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
— Abraham H. Maslow
Everything for you stems from a physical need. Most of you think with either your belly or what's below it
— Soroosh Shahrivar
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
— Abraham H. Maslow
All of my fans are beautiful. Some don't know it, & that sucks 'cause every girl deserves to know they are beautiful.
— James Maslow
Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
— Abraham H. Maslow
Creativeness comes partly out of the unconscious, i.e., is a healthy regression, a temporary turning away from the real world.
— Abraham H. Maslow
No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.
— Abraham Maslow
When the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.
— Abraham H. Maslow
To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.
— Abraham Maslow
Maslow said sex is the primary need. Does that mean pornstars spend more money in books than anyone else?
— Daniel Marques
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
— Abraham Maslow
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
— Abraham Maslow
Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
— Abraham Maslow
Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
— Abraham H. Maslow
It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.
— Abraham Maslow
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
— Abraham Maslow
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
— Abraham Maslow
What one can be, one must be!
— Abraham H. Maslow
One thing I love is to do children's hospital visits.
— James Maslow
Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction ...
— Abraham Maslow
The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?
— Abraham Maslow
We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
— Abraham Maslow
Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.
— Abraham Maslow
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves
— Abraham Maslow
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
— Abraham Maslow
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
— Abraham Maslow
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
— Abraham Maslow
I enjoy running, especially in a new city, so when I'm on tour that's always a good option.
— James Maslow
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
— Abraham Maslow
We are simultaneously gods and worms." - Abraham Maslow
— Timothy Ferriss
Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?
— Abraham Maslow
We do what we are and we are what we do ...
— Abraham Maslow
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
— Abraham Maslow
When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.
— Abraham Maslow
I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.
— James Maslow
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
— Abraham H. Maslow
Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
— Abraham Maslow
If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.
— Abraham H. Maslow
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
— Abraham Maslow
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
— Abraham H. Maslow
Buyerarchy of Needs (with apologies to Maslow): use what you have
borrow
swap
thrift
make
buy — Sarah Lazarovic
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
— Abraham H. Maslow
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
— Abraham H. Maslow
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
— Abraham H. Maslow
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
— Abraham Maslow
One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.
— Abraham Maslow
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
— Abraham Maslow
What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.
— Abraham Maslow
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 H. Maslow
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
— Abraham Maslow
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
— Abraham Maslow
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
— Abraham Maslow
If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be kind of fun.
— James Maslow
What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?
— Abraham Maslow
What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.
— James Maslow
Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
— Abraham Maslow
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
— Abraham Maslow
One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.
— Abraham Maslow
We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
— 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
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
— Abraham H. Maslow
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
— Abraham Maslow
We may define therapy as a search for value.
— Abraham Maslow
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
— Abraham Maslow
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
— Abraham H. Maslow
The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
— Abraham Maslow
I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
— Abraham Maslow
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
— Abraham Maslow
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
— Abraham Maslow
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
— Abraham H. Maslow