We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFERThe quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
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The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.
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The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
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