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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.


Abraham H. Maslow

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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
UNKNOWN If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
BERNARD BARUCH If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
BERNARD M. BARUCH Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
KALAN When you have a hammer in your hand everything around you starts looking like a nail.
ANONYMOUS It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow fa...
TED NUGENT I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a...
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ABRAHAM MASLOW Some people looove to feel offended because it makes them feel important. When your only tool is a h...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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OS GUINNESS A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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ROGER LOWENSTEIN When the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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I am not commanding you, but I ...
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HARPER LEE When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD You don't need a $30 hammer to nail in a picture.
JIM ADAMS I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Some people who think that everything is a nail, are down on themselves because they are not a hamme...
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The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to under...
NORVIN MCGRANAHAN When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to under...
NORVIN MCGRANAHAN A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.
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VIKRANT PARSAI When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
DAN HAWKINS The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.
JONATHAN DANIELS Once a man begins to recognize himself in another, he can no longer look on that person as a strange...
PAUL AUSTER Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
GEORGE JEAN NATHAN A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters
-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
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EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIAN Like a real traveller, he looks for whatever he has in common with the people he encounters, to a po...
MATEO CABELLO As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to ...
JAMES GLEICK A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and n...
WARREN FARRELL The poor man, who acknowledges his limitation and knows he has nothing to give, has everything to gi...
ETC WANYANWU I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail hav...
JOHN NIVEN She (Tanya) was taken advantage of. When a 37-year-old man encounters a 14-year-old girl who wants t...
LAWRENCE FISHER Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto...
BIBLE I always liked the idea that Thor was the god who'd wake up every day and look at that hammer an...
JASON AARON It's nice to have things to look forward to.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE As a man begins to live more seriously within; he begins to live more simply without.
UNKNOWN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.
C.S. LEWIS In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
HILAIRE BELLOC People will rather appreciate a man who wears one suit out of the several he has got and refuse to v...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left al...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his ...
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H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
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H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
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H. H. MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my li...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, f...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive conce...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fo...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
ABRAHAM CAHAN If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
ABRAHAM CAHAN How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible wort...
ABRAHAM CAHAN Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I di...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be bec...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of ...
ABRAHAM VERGHESE A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of men...
KARL ABRAHAM Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inh...
KARL ABRAHAM Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the d...
KARL ABRAHAM A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neur...
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