All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Eupsychian Management 1965; republiAbraham Maslowd as Maslow on Management 1998
The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance New York: Harper & Row 1966; Chapel Hill: Maurice Bassett 2002. He was thus ineligible for the military. This informed his theory that a person enjoys "peak experiences" high points in life when the individual is in harmony with himself and his surroundings.

Abraham Harold Maslow (April 1 1908 – June 8 1970) was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority culminating in self-actualization. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people as opposed to treating them as a "bag of symptoms. Maslow was a psychology professor at Brandeis University Brooklyn College New School for Social Research and Columbia University.