Abraham Maslow Psychologist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Apr 1908
- Died: Jun 8, 1970
Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization. Maslow was a psychology professor at Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research and Columbia University. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a "bag of symptoms."
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
wisdom
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
life
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
men & women
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
change
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
fear
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
music & peace
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
truth