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I was a little afraid at first. I didn't have a lot of confidence when I first went out there. But it started feeling better and I was fine after that.


Eric Maupin

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ERIC HOFFER Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
GOLNIK ERIC We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
ERIC HOFFER There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the pre...
ERIC HOFFER The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every...
ERIC HOFFER Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic...
ERIC HOFFER Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
ERIC GILL Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity i...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
ERIC HOFFER Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
ERIC HOFFER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
ERIC LANGMUIR. When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...
ERIC HOFFER We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH