Talk:Zalmay Khalilzad
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Removed quote:
- If you have a hammer, pretty soon everything looks like a nail.
- On the US approach in Iraq before his arrival."
Correctly attributed to Abraham Maslow, psychologist.
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance. New York: Harper, 1966. (pg. 15) [Althought probably invented by one of Maslow's mentors: Michael Polanyi, this metaphor was made popular by Maslow himself to describe some fundamental errors in human perception]
from the Wikiquote page on Maslow.
