Eric Hoffer Quotes

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

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• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Working

• Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Me
  • Role

• On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Lost
  • Party

• I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Me
  • Artist

• Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Knowledge
  • Passion
  • Collaboration

• We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Past
  • Undo

• It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Great
  • High

• The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Believe
  • True
  • Word

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Thinking
  • Negative
  • Negativity

• 'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.

  

  Adam Hughes
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  • Time
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• I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Strong
  • Respect
  • Emotional

• Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Boring
  • Elections

• I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Paris
  • Bitter

• Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Process
  • Being
  • Healing

• I simply noted that one of the groups, especially exporters, would prefer to have a weaker rouble.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Groups

• My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.

  

  Duncan Sheik
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Culture

• The world could burn around her, the cities turn to dust, the cries of a hundred thousand fill the air, and she would get up after the fire died and walk barefoot and burned over the charred soil in search of clean water, a weapon, a purpose. She would rebuild.

  

  Kameron Hurley
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

  

  Donald Knuth
  • God
  • Challenge
  • Search

• I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Time
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• The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

  

  Eric Hoffer
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