Eric Hoffer Quotes
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
-
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
-
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
-
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
-
I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
-
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
-
I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
-
The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
-
I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
-
It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
-
I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
-
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
-
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
-
Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
-
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
-
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
-
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
-
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
-
And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart.
-
Honor your commitments with integrity.
-
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.
-
People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
-
May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do?
-
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
