Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.
The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.
everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.
My experience is that aggression is a universal trait in human beings - girls feel it in any sort of environment, same-sex or co-ed.
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
There's an intelligent redneck in all of us somewhere.
When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.
There's a plain girl in everybody.
It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.
From the most remote of villages to the largest metropolitan cities, we, as a species, have the same internal need to be seen, heard, and validated. It is the most human of traits that I have witnessed and experienced the world over.
Wanting attention is genderless. It's human.
Some sort of creativity is within everybody; I think that's just a part of the human spirit. I think there's no human being on earth who is not creative in some way, because I think it's just a part of our genetic makeup.
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
