"It is tempting, if the only tool you……" — Abraham Maslow

"It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

— Abraham Maslow

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135 Quotes by Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow has 135 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There…
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true…
The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and…
One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.
Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed,…
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment…
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to…

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More Hammer Quotes

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I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. — Bernard Baruch
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars. — Adam Carolla
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff.… — Adam Carolla
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is… — Mahatma Gandhi
A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. — Abraham Kaplan
I got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this. — Drake
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. — Ambrose Bierce
Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly. — John Ray

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