"The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some……" — Eric Hoffer
"The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything."
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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer has 462 quotes on this site.
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In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed,…
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Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own…
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is…
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In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
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Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
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The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy…
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many…
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he…
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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in…
— Christian Bale
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the…
— J. G. Ballard
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was…
— Drew Barrymore
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Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of…
— Scott Adams
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
— Warren G. Bennis
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua…
— Warren G. Bennis
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Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
— Annie Besant
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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