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

— Abraham Maslow · Wisdom quote

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. — Abraham Maslow quote card
Psychologist · 1908 – 1970

American psychologist who founded humanistic psychology. He is best known for his hierarchy of needs, set out in Motivation and Personality (1954), and for popularising the concept of self-actualisation.

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