FastSaying

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.


Eric Bogosian

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of g...
ROBERT KIRKMAN I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something l...
HAYLEY ATWELL I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me...
JOHN KEY Our comedy was light-hearted amusement that seemingly tripped naturally off the tongue. That's w...
RONNIE CORBETT cordial, extensive, light-hearted at times.
STEPHEN HADLEY Sometimes, fame does scare me. When people know where you are and what you're doing, that can be...
POPPY DELEVINGNE My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't goin...
TOM BODETT Overall, I'm happy how 'Original Sin' has come together. It's an amalgam of all I...
JASON AARON I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we...
TERESA PALMER People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I ...
WARIS AHLUWALIA I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.
JANE BADLER I just try to tell my stories in a way that is still light-hearted and fun to listen to. I'm not...
ALESSIA CARA I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. ...
JAMES DASHNER It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm...
BENY STEINMETZ I was inspired by Cary Grant. I wanted to do the kind of work he did and to work in light-hearted ro...
ROBERT VAUGHN The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.
THEO VAN GOGH If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not wit...
MEGAN FOX I'm afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better a...
ANNE FRANK The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
RONALD REAGAN Devotion to serve in itself is a quality that should never be taken light-hearted.
JACKIE ASHMORE I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm...
CAMILLA BELLE When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept ...
DEBRA WINGER I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like yo...
DYAN CANNON You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not...
KATE MOSS I always wanted to do a light-hearted entertainer, and 'Bruce Lee' is such a film. The broth...
RAM CHARAN The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure stor...
IAN MCKELLEN The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pes...
RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA I think our Batman had to be fun, light-hearted, funny, tongue-in-cheek... and I think that made kin...
ADAM WEST Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense ...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm com...
BARBARA BUSH I don't think of myself as a trendy person at all, and if I'm anything, I'm probably con...
ALFRED ENOCH My inspiration came from my desire to educate our children on the politics of the Iraq war in a ligh...
ANGELA MARTIN I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
DAVID HOCKNEY I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.
SHAKUNTALA DEVI I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric lig...
CHUBBY CHECKER In the studio, if things go wrong, you stop things and fix them. I have never been in a recording st...
JOHN ABERCROMBIE However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, i...
JULIAN CLARY I think Tony Blair has to come down on one side or the other. You can't be a half-hearted suppor...
SIMON HOGGART I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. ...
STING I look back at the 1990s with its light-wash jeans, and I'm like, 'What...?'
ETHAN PECK I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry a...
AL FRANKEN Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'...
LYDIA LUNCH The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily m...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Why not just have fun with clothes? We should be more light-hearted about how we dress, how we look....
ORLA BRADY I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several.
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
VIN SCULLY I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I&#...
MELISSA MCCARTHY I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can't. But that's okay. I'm...
ADAM DRIVER I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I ...
EMINEM Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away.
NORMAN MACCAIG What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can'...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might ...
MEEK MILL He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief Perhap...
WILLIAM COWPER I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn&...
PITBULL You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you...
CLAY AIKEN I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm no...
BARRY HANNAH The main thing that I learned in doing 'Moonlight' is that we get to shine light on a way of...
TREVANTE RHODES I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
ADAM GARCIA I don't really care if people think I'm good-looking or not; it doesn't define me as a p...
GENESIS RODRIGUEZ I can't be a creative person if I'm a celebrity.
JAMES MCBRIDE At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
TAMARA ECCLESTONE I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm t...
BILLY PORTER I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn...
STEVE PERRY I don't think I'm a good host. I'm not a good host. I'm terrible at hosting. That...
CHELSEA HANDLER I've learned that the ones, we love most, must be guarded. Those that we hold most precious, cannot ...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN My inspiration for Baker Tonys Pizza came from my desire to educate our children on the politics of ...
ANGELA MARTIN I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world i...
IRIS APFEL I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the characte...
VANESSA LENGIES I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best ...
MIRANDA KERR I'm not the coolest person in the world. I'm not the sexiest Diva or the strongest Diva. I k...
AJ LEE If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen s...
MARIE HELVIN I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more...
BETTY FIELD I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, sa...
JILL SOLOWAY I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say...
ADRIENNE BAILON By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depr...
ERIC SCHLOSSER I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, re...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your a...
JACKIE EVANCHO I'm not a tacky person, I think.
CLAIRE DENIS I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't s...
BECKI NEWTON I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabite...
SEAMUS HEANEY I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.
BETH BRODERICK Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't...
NAMIE AMURO I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore...
THABO MBEKI My work comes out of a deep psychological place, so it's not like I'm Object Man at home. Th...
TINO SEHGAL The people here are so wonderful, generous and warm-hearted, ... They've given so much. I can never ...
JOYCE SMITH Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the ...
EMIR KUSTURICA Speaking the truth is the main attribute of a pure hearted person.
ERALDO BANOVAC I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
HARRISON FORD I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to b...
BIPASHA BASU I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun...
ORLANDO BLOOM Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all ...
ANNIE LENNOX I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.
MARLENE DUMAS A joke is basically and normally a light-hearted talk about the sensible things we ought to feel and...
ANUJ SOMANY I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground...
KEANU REEVES I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket sci...
RACHAEL RAY Life was but a joke and a dream, quite frankly. We were having a good time, and we were working very...
EDDIE KRAMER

More Eric Bogosian

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
ERIC BOGOSIAN As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere bet...
ERIC BOGOSIAN The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's ...
ERIC BOGOSIAN There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Sov...
ERIC BOGOSIAN It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the mater...
ERIC BOGOSIAN I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the ...
ERIC BOGOSIAN For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having ...
ERIC BOGOSIAN If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, scr...
ERIC BOGOSIAN Jeff: Idealism is guilty middle-class bullshit.
ERIC BOGOSIAN Tim: I shot my TV.
ERIC BOGOSIAN Jeff: Nothing ever changes, man. Fifty years from now we're all gonna be dead. And there will be ano...
ERIC BOGOSIAN Jeff: At least I admit that I don't know. I know that things are fucked up, beyond belief, and I hav...
ERIC BOGOSIAN Buff: What are you doing now?

Bee-Bee: I don't know. You mean like now? Like right now? W...
ERIC BOGOSIAN Jeff: I could go to New York if I wanted to, but what's the point? So I can learn how to order a cap...
ERIC BOGOSIAN Jeff: I don't need a limousine to know who I am. At least I know I don't know.
ERIC BOGOSIAN Jeff: I'm saying I don't need a limousine to know who I am, alright?

Tim: Right on. You k...
ERIC BOGOSIAN I write, but I also act.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think a...
ERIC BOGOSIAN Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.
ERIC BOGOSIAN If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very diffe...
ERIC BOGOSIAN I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I love playing other people's work. I love acting.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the bes...
ERIC BOGOSIAN Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
ERIC BOGOSIAN We are prepared for the long fight.
BRIAN BOGOSIAN These aren't things we've kept in a three-ring binder gathering dust somewhere.
BRIAN BOGOSIAN Our case against RIM is based on similar technology law and patents as the case we have just won in ...
BRIAN BOGOSIAN RIM must understand that there is no place in the mobile e-mail space for this sort of behavior. RIM...
BRIAN BOGOSIAN To ignore this blatant misappropriation of our intellectual property is akin to taking these assets ...
BRIAN BOGOSIAN RIM barely scratches the surface. We don't need any of their customers.
BRIAN BOGOSIAN We are prepared financially to see this thing through to the very end.
BRIAN BOGOSIAN If you do that and rebalance your portfolio each year, you would have one that could last throughout...
WAYNE BOGOSIAN If you do that and rebalance your portfolio each year, you would have one that could last throughout...
WAYNE BOGOSIAN You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
ERIC HOLDER We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFER Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and ...
ERIC HOFFER The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFER It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to le...
ERIC HOFFER Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us...
ERIC HOFFER Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
ERIC HOFFER One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo...
ERIC HOLDER I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ...
ERIC DAVIS I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald'...
ERIC SCHLOSSER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
ERIC SEVAREID If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root ca...
ERIC TOPOL A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-por...
ERIC KANDEL I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
ERIC ANDRE A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins...
ERIC BERNE Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invente...
ERIC SCHMIDT When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have ...
ERIC HOLDER Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as...
ERIC DANE It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd ra...
ERIC DAVIS I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ...
ERIC ANDRE If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
ERIC CANTONA I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.
ERIC BRISTOW Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright ci...
ERIC LIU I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Bud...
ERIC RIPERT First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu...
ERIC ANDRE Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it...
ERIC BROWN When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've bee...
ERIC LIU I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.
ERIC BRISTOW If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, st...
ERIC SHINSEKI With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America int...
ERIC SEVAREID You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,&...
ERIC STOLTZ The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby t...
ERIC HOFFER The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t...
ERIC HOFFER How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
ERIC HOFFER There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for...
ERIC HOFFER It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
ERIC HOFFER I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I ...
ERIC STONESTREET At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calc...
ERIC MASKIN If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene...
ERIC RIES All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.
ERIC MCCORMACK Great businessmen are creators.
ERIC CANTONA I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think...
ERIC DICKERSON Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life...
ERIC WINTER There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the ...
ERIC RIES If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with s...
ERIC MASSA There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
ERIC TOPOL There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure ...
ERIC TOPOL As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop...
ERIC ALTERMAN I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
ERIC CLAPTON With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
ERIC WHITACRE There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ...
ERIC CHURCH A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym...
ERIC HOFFER There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in ...
ERIC HOFFER The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger ...
ERIC HOFFER Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t...
ERIC GELMAN Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop ...
ERIC LIU When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe...
ERIC MASKIN It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f...
ERIC HOFFER Mass is resistance to motion.
ERIC PARSLOW One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater tha...
ERIC PARSLOW The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
ERIC HOFFER Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to...
ERIC HOFFER Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla...
ERIC HOLDER 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

ERIC HOFFER Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.
ERIC PARSLOW Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.
ERIC PARSLOW Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of...
ERIC HOFFER The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER Remembering​ ​is​ ​something​ ​God​ ​asks​ ​us​ ​to​ ​do​ ​over​ �...
ERIC IRIVUZUMUGABE Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFER The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their ...
ERIC HOFFER The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as ...
ERIC HOFFER Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in l...
ERIC HOFFER Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for se...
ERIC HOFFER Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions ...
ERIC HOFFER The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac...
ERIC HOFFER As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u...
ERIC WEINER For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ...
ERIC AMBLER Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo...
ERIC WEINER I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit lo...
ERIC SPITZNAGEL The chief cause of problems is solutions.
ERIC SEVAREID When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common...
ERIC HOFFER Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring...
ERIC HOFFER Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can...
ERIC HOFFER Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would i...
ERIC HOFFER To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e...
ERIC HOFFER For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...
ERIC BERNE It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...
ERIC FONER Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'...
ERIC IDLE Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
ERIC HOFFER It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi...
ERIC HOFFER There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
ERIC HOFFER It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu...
ERIC HOFFER An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
ERIC HOFFER No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine h...
ERIC HOFFER Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
GOLNIK ERIC We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
ERIC HOFFER There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the pre...
ERIC HOFFER The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every...
ERIC HOFFER Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic...
ERIC HOFFER Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
ERIC GILL Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity i...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
ERIC HOFFER Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
ERIC HOFFER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
ERIC LANGMUIR. When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...
ERIC HOFFER We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspi...
ERIC HOFFER There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...
ERIC HOFFER