Experience Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Experience Foreboding Inspirational Love Stirring
You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness. — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
“Newness” has a sort of mystical draw, even though it's incredibly short-lived and rarely meets expectations” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That’s the thing about change. It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable. Or it can be sudden, and you don’t even know how… — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Copy Share Image
Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time. — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The Derby experience had not been good for me and the way it finished left a very bad taste in my mouth so I… — Nigel Pearson Copy Share Image
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
My favorite job is the next one. Its such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a… — Roger Craig Smith Copy Share Image
I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government. — Michael Ledeen Copy Share Image
Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise. — Michael Bugeja Copy Share Image
It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the UFC when you've had enough fights, you have enough experience that you're confident in your abilities and you… — Dan Hooker Copy Share Image