Eric Hoffer Quotes

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Eric Hoffer

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• To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • You
  • Emotional
  • Professional

• Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

  

  Sai Baba
  • World
  • Live
  • Values

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Things
  • Acting

• Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Cold
  • Sea
  • Spring

• I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Children
  • Family
  • Friends

• I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Interest

• Bollywood is huge. Anything that's made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won't stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Faith
  • Stop

• I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Fear
  • Decision
  • Creative

• Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Different
  • May

• The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • People
  • Work
  • Nature

• I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Life
  • Why
  • Know

• My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Music
  • Children
  • Choices

• You discover yourself through the research of your work.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Research

• It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Believe
  • Child
  • Hard

• The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Business
  • Team
  • Transition

• PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Habit
  • Prince
  • Gossip

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Development
  • Strategy
  • Genocide

• One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Done
  • America

• At my age, all my friends, doctors, and attorneys are dead. The good thing about this is that there's no one left who can refute my stories.

  

  George Burns
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Age

• The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Air

• Harness mules and oxen, but give a horse a chance to run.

  

  James Butler Hickok
  • Chance
  • Horse
  • Run

• We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

  

  Eric Hoffer