Eric Hoffer Quotes

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

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• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Long
  • Important

• I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Misunderstood

• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Film
  • Person
  • Certain

• My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Family
  • Remember

• If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Light
  • Broken
  • Habit

• I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Model

• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Better
  • Experiment

• Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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  • Friend
  • Healthy

• I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • She
  • America

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Something
  • Afraid
  • Intimacy

• Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Country
  • America
  • Giving

• My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Hero
  • Anger

• Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

  

  Pat Burns
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Want
  • Easy

• Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Way
  • Education
  • Justice

• When we came to the network, it was a very interesting time where Portlandia had just come on the air and had been very, very successful. I think people had Portlandia-sized expectations for Comedy Bang! Bang!, especially after the first episode was sampled by quite a large number of people. I remember getting the ratings after the first episode, and the network was over the moon about it. And then the second episode tanked so hard. Like, no one watched it. It was a resounding, "Hey, a bunch of people tried your show, and they all hate it!"

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Interesting

• Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

  

  Asghar Farhadi
  • Up

• Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Up
  • Leadership
  • Leader

• People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • People
  • Hand