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Eric Hoffer - From the Activity category:
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Audience category:
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Change category:
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Change category:
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Competition category:
When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Consideration category:
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Desire category:
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Disappointment category:
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Dissatisfaction category:
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Excellence category:
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Experience category:
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Fear category:
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Freedom category:
Unless a man had the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Future category:
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Happiness category:
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Imitation category:
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Individuality category:
You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Keys category:
Children are the keys of paradise. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Originality category:
Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Originality category:
Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Religion category:
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Sacrifice category:
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization! (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Talent category:
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. (Eric Hoffer)
Eric Hoffer - From the Technology category:
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. (Eric Hoffer)
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