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Ability Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
- They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than…
- Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.
- Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent…
- There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.
- The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.
- It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills,…
- Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor…
- Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
- One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to…
- ...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.
- Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.Eric Hoffer
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