Eric Hoffer Quotes

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Eric Hoffer

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• Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Emotional

• I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Break
  • Forgotten
  • Changing

• The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Music
  • Reality

• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Man
  • Play
  • Television

• A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Important
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Money
  • Me
  • Control

• I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Football
  • Hair
  • Street

• If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Control
  • Company
  • Founder

• There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Success
  • Two
  • Commercial

• Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Cheer

• I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Always
  • See
  • Snake

• I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Help

• Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' education.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Education
  • Goal
  • Imitation

• The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• If I can do just one-tenth of the good Michael Jackson did for others, I can really make a difference in this world.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • World
  • Good

• Self-justification - that is, claiming one's innocence and thus in the final analysis blaming God - is an inheritance we have received from Adam and Eve. Even the worst criminals have this urge to exonerate themselves. They claim innocence in the face of the most heinous crimes. Prison chaplains write that there is no place like prison to find so many self-righteous people, maintaining that they are actually innocent. They think they have been imprisoned unjustly. We human beings have an excuse for everything and thus we see no reason why we should repent and turn from our ways. If we think we are in the right, that we have good reason to justify ourselves and say that we are not guilty, why should we repent?

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • Guilty
  • Prison
  • Human Beings

• I'm a Cubs season ticket holder.

  

  Brian Azzarello

• Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Sex
  • Humans
  • Mystery

• Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

  

  Eric Hoffer