TuesdayJun 09, 2026
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Abraham (Harold) Maslow (April 1, 1908 - June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist. He is mostly noted today for his proposal of a hierarchy of human needs and is considered the father of humanistic psychology.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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.
Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal 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.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
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