I have a full box of index cards (remember those?) with LRH quotes on them, fully cited. These are some of my favorite quotes, hence why I took the time to write them down on these cards. Some day maybe I'll get industrious and transfer them to documents in my computer. Y'all hold your breath until that happens. (I have actually started a file on my computer for this stuff.)

The following was a set of three cards and three quotes from a single lecture:

Then what is it that makes Caruso, Caruso; Hutton, Hutton; and a deaf mute, a deaf mute? What is it? What is it factually?

It is the willingness to demonstrate the ability.

Obviously it is a dangerous thing to be able. Obviously, that's the only way you ever get into trouble: You do a job well and people will keep you on it.

Now and then a thetan surprises himself half out of this own wits by failing to monitor his own ability. He does something fantastic, like picks an automobile up and turns it around. Just boom! He'll say, "What did I do that for?" He's always able to do this, but he's not willing to.

Well, "it'd spoil the game" is the motto of unwillingness; "it'd spoil the game."

Therefore, there must be some series of decisions in a preclear concerning the liabilities and consequences of the demonstration of ability which mount up to an unwillingness to demonstrate it along certain lines. And there's another consideration that "it must appear difficult to others if one accomplishes something. Since it is never appreciated unless it is difficult".

The preceding was from a lecture called, "Auditing Techniques: Altering Cases".

I can't tell you how often and in how many circumstances I've found the above to be true in the people I know. I secretly take great pleasure when they let control slip and do something extraordinary. I keep hoping they'll say to themselves, "Hey! I didn't know I could do that! How kewl!" But they almost never do. Instead, they act precisely as LRH has described above.

I can also attest that when you do a job well, you'll be stuck in it, just as LRH describes above.