Maslow, Abraham Harold

1908 - Born on the 1st of April in Brooklyn, New York.

1930-1934 - Attended the University of Wisconsin from which he received his B.A. (1930), his M.A. (1931), and his Ph.D. (1934) in psychology.

Began teaching full time at Brooklyn College.

1951-1961 - Chairman of the psychology department at Brandeis University, where he began his theoretical work.

1954 - Wrote "Motivation and Personality" 1954, "Toward a Psychology of Being" 1962.

Diagram of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, represented as a pyramid with more primitive needs at the bottom.

Maslow's primary contribution to psychology is his Hierarchy of Human Needs.

Pioneer of humanistic psychology.

1970 - Retired to California, where he died 8th of June because of heart attack.

• "Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear."
• "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
• "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."
• "We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings."
• "Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home."