“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
Abraham Maslow
“When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.”
“It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, treat everything as if it were a nail.”
“When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.”
“He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.”
“The nail that sticks up gets hammered down”
Japanese Proverb
“A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.”
Milan Kundera