Eric Hoffer Quotes

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Eric Hoffer

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• I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Movies

• Everything is real on me.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Real
  • Me
  • Everything

• My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Practice

• Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Value
  • Always
  • Which

• The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Going
  • Head
  • Coach

• I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Really
  • Left
  • Japan

• Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• Unfortunately, I like to feel a little stubble when I kiss. Women are too soft.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Kiss

• Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Evil
  • Goodness
  • Only

• I participate in the SNAP Challenge to raise awareness about the millions of people in our communities who struggle with hunger on a daily basis despite living in the most prosperous nation ever known.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Struggle

• The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• The smile is the shortest distance between two persons (Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker)

  

  Victor Borge
  • Smile
  • Distance

• The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Time

• The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • House
  • Small

• I want to know exactly how the first few measures are going to go, and the rough shape of a movement or the whole piece and its essential character.

  

  Steven Stucky
  • Character
  • Movement
  • Measures

• When I started at Puma, you had a restaurant that was a Puma restaurant, an Adidas restaurant, a bakery. The town was literally divided. If you were working for the wrong company, you wouldn't be served any food; you couldn't buy anything. So it was kind of an odd experience.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Experience
  • Food

• It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.

  

  Danny Elfman
  • Wish
  • Value

• Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Up
  • Men
  • Live

• I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Being
  • Read
  • Antidote

• It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

  

  Eric Hoffer