Eric Hoffer Quotes

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

Eric Hoffer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983

Topics

FrustrationWantNothingMoreSeem

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

Jerry Saltz

LifeArtAestheticNew LifeNewNow

I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.

Jenny Offill

LifeIdeasKindThingsInterested

Because I practice often with my children at home.

Andrea Bocelli

HomeChildrenPracticeBecauseOften

I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

BestManMeDoingMy OwnOut

The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.

Steve Burke

BusinessBestEntertainmentChannels

The alt-right for me is primarily a cultural reaction to the nannying and language policing and authoritarianism of the progressive left - the stranglehold that it has on culture.

Milo Yiannopoulos

CultureMeLanguageReactionLeft

The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.

Lorrie Fair

BestEffortTeamSurviveGameChina

There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.

Dean Devlin

GreatEntertainmentBecomeHappening

I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes.

Bonnie Wright

LovedAlwaysDialogueWrites

People might talk more about Real Madrid and Barcelona than about Atletico, but what matters to me is what happens on the pitch. We compete with them year after year. I am not interested about the club's reputation.

Antoine Griezmann

I AmPeopleMeReputationYearTalk

Far as the government's reform agenda is concerned, a series of measures have been enacted which should increase the supply potential of the economy.

Arun Jaitley

GovernmentPotentialEconomyBeen

My father ran an insurance company, but he passed away when I was 8. My mother was an economist working for the government of Liberia. But both my grandmothers were entrepreneurs in rural West Africa.

Richelieu Dennis

FatherMotherGovernmentInsurance

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