"We can never really be prepared for that……" — Eric Hoffer
"We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling."
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462 Quotes by Eric Hoffer
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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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More Adjust Quotes
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
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Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's…
— Jane Campion
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
— Jimmy Carter
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In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As…
— Jimmy Carter
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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks…
— Eric Clapton
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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a…
— Laurie Anderson
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It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as…
— Lorraine Hansberry
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There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue…
— Tom Landry
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting…
— Olivia Wilde
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