Eric Hoffer Quotes

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Past
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Think
  • Media
  • YouTube

• Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • World
  • Health
  • Organization

• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Good
  • Long
  • Brand

• Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Great
  • Money
  • Future

• Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Children
  • Words
  • Innocent

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Heart
  • Bowler
  • Stead

• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Purpose

• My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Value
  • Religious
  • Commitment

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Better
  • Did
  • Ohio

• In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Country
  • Night

• I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Young

• In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that's a different story. I can do things in the theater that I can't do anyplace else.

  

  Brian Dennehy
  • Different
  • Business

• There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

  

  Marcia Angell
  • Mind
  • Powerful
  • Attitude

• George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.

  

  Alvin Lee
  • People
  • Work
  • Guy

• I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Help

• The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Work
  • Done