It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
Eric HofferThere are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Eric HofferTo the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.
Eric Hoffer