Eric Hoffer Quotes

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Eric Hoffer

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• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Law

• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Nature

• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Cheating

• Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Different
  • You
  • Technology

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Nature

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Conspiracy

• It's human nature to want to be with other people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Nature
  • Want

• Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Work
  • Music
  • Art

• By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Nature
  • Goal
  • Survive

• I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Nature
  • Football
  • Sports

• I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Book
  • Nature

• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

  

  Barry Schuler
  • Nature
  • Better
  • Now

• The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

  

  Charles Macklin
  • Science
  • Law
  • Justice

• 'My face and your faces shall not be masked; our hand shall hold neither sword nor sceptre, and our subjects shall love us in peace and shall not be in fear of us.' Thus spoke Jesus, and unto all the kingdoms of the earth I was blinded, and unto all the cities of walls and towers; and it was in my heart to follow the Master to His kingdom.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Fear

• I hate to cook, but I love to eat. I would want to be able to conjure yummy and healthy meals by wiggling my nose!

  

  Jessica Parker Kennedy
  • Hate

• Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bigness excite Sensations of several Colours, much after the manner that the Vibrations of the Air, according to their several bignesses excite Sensations of several Sounds? And particularly do not the most refrangible Rays excite the shortest Vibrations for making a Sensation of deep violet, the least refrangible the largest form making a Sensation of deep red, and several intermediate sorts of Rays, Vibrations of several intermediate bignesses to make Sensations of several intemediate Colours?

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Rays
  • Vibration
  • Several

• Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Nature
  • Creativity