Eric Hoffer Quotes

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

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• General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Military
  • Place
  • Impossible

• In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Men
  • Women
  • Employees

• It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Free
  • Sin
  • Clean

• I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Like
  • See
  • Someone

• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Work
  • Hunting

• I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Different
  • Day
  • Survival

• I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Friends
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • School
  • Lost
  • Village

• No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Racism
  • Soccer
  • Nationalism

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Clothes
  • Uncomfortable

• I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Gold

• When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • May
  • Process
  • Notes

• We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Dark
  • End
  • WIld

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • First
  • Possible
  • Overcome

• Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Think
  • Career

• Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Power
  • Help
  • Purpose

• Our universities produced lawyers and doctors for the old social system, but did not create enough agricultural extension teachers, agronomists, chemists, or physicists. In fact, we do not even have mathematicians.

  

  Che Guevara

• I was sick, anybody can be sick. What I have is a spiritual problem which I am dealing with. Even in the Bible, it was stated that we are not fighting against flesh and blood, but wickedness in high places. I am a freedom fighter, I can never be shot like Lucky Dube, I am invincible, you can’t shoot me.

  

  Majek Fashek
  • Freedom
  • Fighting
  • Spiritual

• You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

  

  Andy Grove
  • World
  • Die
  • Revolution

• Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.

  

  Brenda Blethyn
  • Good
  • Job

• We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Revolution