Having a sequence of the human genome is good, but our ability to interpret it was limited. The mouse sequence provides, for the first time, an ability to determine what matters and what doesn't in the human genome.


Eric Lander

  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

It is a scientific milestone because it now links directly to the human genome sequence and provides...
DR PANOS DELOUKAS
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence ...
BILL GATES
The fact is that proprietary databases don't work for such basic and broadly needed information ...
JOHN SULSTON
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something...
PETER SINGER
Author discussed what he calls the "narrative fallacy." This refers to our "limited ability" to look...
NICHOLAS NASSIM TALEB
Genetics is in pretty deep weeds right now because we put billions of dollars into basic scientific ...
MICHAEL WATSON
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical inf...
LEROY HOOD
One amino-acid replacement in the genome remains to make the virus transferable from human to human.
DMITRY LVOV
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empa...
C. JOYBELL C.
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from ch...
SAM HARRIS
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location a...
RON WYDEN
That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you.
H.L. DAVIS
We're collecting about 100,000 telomere lengths in saliva samples and then looking at how those ...
ELIZABETH BLACKBURN
Living in your genome is the history of our species.
BARRY SCHULER
The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON
The pig is an outstanding model to study human diseases. Understanding the pig genome should provide...
MAX ROTHSCHILD
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C.
The sequencing of the pig genome is a scientific advance that will offer great benefits for consumer...
MAX ROTHSCHILD
The cancer project scales up to well over 100 Human Genome Projects.
ANNA BARKER
From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of ...
MARTIN REES
Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling...
IAN HACKING
Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spo...
JANE GOODALL
Sequencing the chimp genome is a historic achievement that is destined to lead to many more exciting...
FRANCIS COLLINS
The goal is not just butterfly collecting or mammal collecting to simply describe mammals. All of th...
ERIC LANDER
A poet warrior realizes both the brutality and the beauty in life, and apprehends that the suffering...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the abili...
LISA GANSKY
Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO
What he [Venter] realized is that the DNA in microorganisms is about 1,000th the length of the human...
LARRY SMARR
I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in peo...
CRAIG VENTER
Every human has the ability to love , no matter what!
ANIL GUPTA
[Part of this enthusiasm has stemmed from recent scientific advances, especially the completion of t...
HAMILTON MOSES
A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage ΦX174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been de...
FREDERICK SANGER
As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature...
QUENTIN BLAKE
Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been w...
SAM KEAN
Human beings experience sadness because they want what is beyond human ability – absolute control ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of ...
FRANCIS COLLINS
I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity...
HENRY LOUIS GATES
I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form a...
THOMAS JANE
Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
Half the time, I have trouble following our own pitcher's sequence.
BEN ZOBRIST
If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beau...
MICHAEL STEINHARDT
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human org...
FRANCIS COLLINS
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA
What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA coul...
SYDNEY BRENNER
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and o...
EDWARD THORNDIKE
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and ...
FRANZ BOAS
She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
GORE VIDAL
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it
MARK TWAIN
True Happiness comes from within... Granting another human being the power to determine your level o...
WILSON J. WASHINGTON III
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Web...
IAIN MCGILCHRIST
I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who do...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double ...
JAMES D. WATSON
They represent about 30 percent of all proteins in the human genome, but they represent something li...
GEORGE DETITTA
If the flesh were to be a preacher the gospel it will love to preach is the gospel called variety.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The biggest burden we all carry in life is not the fear of death,but the fear of our unpredictable f...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The human body is a strange & unreligious being,for it thrives on variety.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Fear the lion,fear the crocodile,but fear most the one that puts on the inevitable wear called the h...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The most dangerous weapon in life is not the atomic bomb or the AK 47 riffle,but the human flesh.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing gen...
LEROY HOOD
It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that ...
VACLAV KLAUS
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA
What is news is that finally researchers have the actual genome, we have the data, but now the data ...
JAMES REDDOCH
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Consciousness and free will are necessary in order for human beings to live meaningful lives by supp...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Despite the major threat to human health posed by these viruses, there was very little information a...
CLAYTON NAEVE
He still has an admirable ability to interpret the country.
MASSIMO FRANCO
We must know that when we invite people into our lives, we are not just inviting people; but we are ...
C. JOYBELL C.
Sylvia possessed a deeply conditioned respect for authority. She wanted desperately to live up to th...
ELIZABETH WINDER
Obviously, we're real pleased. This is the first step back [into] our return to flight sequence.
MICHAEL GRIFFIN
Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in o...
CLARENCE THOMAS
I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, w...
GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER
To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS...
The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI
If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS...
i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime number...
LEONHARD EULER
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
It was kind of an amazing sequence of events.
PETER BLACK
Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new way...
NAYEF AL-RODHAN
Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.
GINA GREENLEE
Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTI...
DEREK LANDY
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

More Eric Lander

We're living through a historic revolution in biology.
ERIC LANDER
This is telling us about those changes that make us human.
ERIC LANDER
Evolutionary analysis is a handmaiden to human medicine.
ERIC LANDER
That's a very specific prediction.
ERIC LANDER
The goal is not just butterfly collecting or mammal collecting to simply describe mammals. All of th...
ERIC LANDER
We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to ...
ERIC LANDER
About 99 percent of genes in humans have counterparts in the mouse. Eighty percent have identical, o...
ERIC LANDER
Evolution is a way of understanding the world that continues to hold up day after day to scientific ...
ERIC LANDER
Now folks say 'I believe in this Internet world and I want to disclose my data before publishing ......
ERIC LANDER
Darwin and his descendants couldn't have asked for a better example of how you make scientific predi...
ERIC LANDER
I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it
TERRY LANDER
The human race has come such a long way in such a short time and every day I wake I feel blessed tha...
TERRY LANDER
Just as hunters will mount the heads of the kills, white people need to let people know that they ha...
CHRISTIAN LANDER
Everything you could ever wish for is just in reach. Work hard and never be afraid to ask for someth...
TERRY LANDER
The first stage of camping always involves a trip to an outdoor equipment store like REI. These stor...
CHRISTIAN LANDER
White people love rock climbing almost more than they love camping. This is
because the activit...
CHRISTIAN LANDER
If you look into the footnotes of the business model for Apple Computer you'll see that they actuall...
CHRISTIAN LANDER
Offensively and defensively, we played much better in the second half. We just dug too big of a hole...
CHRIS LANDER
If you are able to introduce a white person to a new cheese, it's like introducing them to a future ...
CHRISTIAN LANDER
All white people are born with a singular mission in life in order to pass from regular whitehood in...
CHRISTIAN LANDER
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
It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
ERIC BOGOSIAN
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
Facts are counterrevolutionary.
ERIC HOFFER
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
ERIC PARSLOW
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opini...
ERIC HOFFER
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFER
Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mi...
ERIC HOFFER
Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty...
ERIC PARSLOW
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th...
ERIC HOFFER
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate conscious...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
God can only do for you what He can do through you.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFER
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
ERIC HOFFER
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind...
ERIC HOFFER