We have some great senior leadership and real exciting newcomers. We look to be pretty strong in some of the shorter relays. Being a new program, we just have to wait and see.


Eric Ries

  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

We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO
We have a lot of senior leadership in the back. We have a lot of newcomers and they are slowly start...
DOUG ALIOTH
We have a really special group. We have some great senior leadership and guys with experience. There...
LUKE REILLY
Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
We are a young team ? nine juniors and just one senior ? and we need to supply some leadership for t...
JEN KOLLAER
I just can't wait to be a part of it. We have five senior starters and it's great that we can hopefu...
BILL KLINGER
It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN
Obviously, this is a new issue and not something that was anticipated. We're going to have to wait a...
JASON KEADJIAN
Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
I think the program is going to become real strong because of the coaching staff we have. They're wi...
MAGGIE DAUBENMIRE
I'm real impressed with the newcomers. The pitching, I'm not just impressed with their velocity but ...
GARY KENDALL
It's really a tribute to the success of our program. We have leadership internally and the freshmen ...
BARB GIBSON
We're in the process of installing a new set. We're doing it because we have a real need. You'll see...
FORREST CARR
We definitely lost some leadership. That was a great group of guys and they'll be hard to replace. B...
NICK WHALEY
We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR
Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER
We have a real exciting team this year. We will be depending on seven freshmen . . . and with some o...
JOHN SPINI
What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER
As a global company, AT&T is proud to have its name associated with this great university and some o...
DAVID GEORGE
Our biggest problem when you look at this team is 15 out of 19 kids are freshmen and sophomores. We ...
DOUG FOOTE
We are a real balanced unit. We have wrestled some pretty good competition and the kids have respond...
CHARLIE CLAY
We're young, 22 of our 32 kids are either freshmen or sophomores. Luckily we have some senior leader...
HOWARD BELL
We were fine tuning some things and trying some new things to see how they work out for the conferen...
GRETCHEN DEVROY
Ben will be exciting to watch, and we will have to wait and see how he adjusts to the college level.
JUSTIN SHERWOOD
We are delighted to be associated with this new sporting venture. These are exciting times for Bahra...
PAUL YATES
We have great senior leadership. We only have four, but they are four of our best players, they're l...
TIFFANI AIRMET
We all look buff. We have to get some new clothes.
DEREK ANDERSON
I like relays anyway, and we have a lot of top-end seniors, so this might just be our year in the re...
COLIN FLYNN
We have added some real depth in areas. Our (newcomers) will be a real positive part of the 10-game ...
JEFF HEACOCK
The 2004 team was very young and finished strong. We have a lot of sophomores and juniors, and a cou...
DON DANIELS
You have to do a great job evaluating those kids maybe in the top 25 to 100. So we could (eventually...
BILLY DONOVAN
Tonight, I thought we played well for four quarters. We just didn't have enough. Heritage is an unbe...
BRIAN BLUBAUGH
It's been a great mix. We've had fabulous senior leadership from day one; in fact our senior leaders...
LARRY HALE
Any perception can connect us to reality properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, ...
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA
There are obviously still some problems out in the Gulf. We will have to wait and see how fast repai...
KYLE COOPER
I thought we had a real nice meet. We had some good swims. Now it's time to look forward to Monday n...
JASON HUBER
We have to (control the ball), we have good senior leadership and I'm hoping they give us that good ...
BRENT WALSTON
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW
It's going to be exciting. Being in D-I is going to be a challenge, but we'll be able to handle it. ...
JENNIFER HUNT
The way it works, ... is I did not look at a roster. Everyone had to earn their way on to the team. ...
CHRIS WHITE
We just have to wait and see tomorrow. We are reasonably happy that we have solved some our issues b...
JENSON BUTTON
It was great to see a strong field and competition for this early spring race. We saw some great per...
CARIE GRAVES
I have been a senior before but not in college. It is a bigger challenge being a senior, so I have t...
JUSTIN ROBINSON
She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART
We should do enforcement first, and at some point when we see there is a real willingness and abilit...
LARRY VANHOOSE
Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
We wanted to be a senior class that kept the morale up. We're all real competitive, but we try to ma...
LAUREN SKREL
With the runners we have returning, and some of the new runners we have coming in, we have a very go...
ERIC HUNT
We definitely do have a younger team, so I think we'll have an opportunity to put together some bett...
JOSH FLOETKE
I thought the girls ran pretty well. We have a new fifth runner and we have to work out some things....
GREG GIBSON
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
This is a strong group, and we are looking to go to state this season. We only lost one senior, and ...
DON DANIELS
We think there continues to be some pretty strong price opportunities in the market.
FRED GREEN
Coming into the season I really have high expectations for this year's team. We have a strong senior...
JULIE MCGRAW
While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarge...
NATHAN DEAL
We're a pretty solid pitching team. We have some really good arms. If we could just play some solid ...
ERIC REICHENBACH
We've been a little better than I thought we'd be. We have a lot of wonderful senior leadership and ...
BOB BRASKO
We believe we should wait and see the composition of a new government and the policies of a new gove...
CHRISTINA GALLACH
[Those hoping that a national voter registry might bring some order to the chaos might have to wait ...
KURT BROWNING
Most of our senior class has been playing since our sophomore year. We have a lot of great leadershi...
HARRY WATSON
We'll have to wait and see if Eric can take on the responsibility.
AL GALLAGHER
We accomplished what we came here to do due to great senior leadership.
JOE MASLEH
That was a great shot, and, with her being a senior and playing like that the entire game, it is gre...
CALLIE OREBO
I believe we have the talent to make a run at the A-10 title. We'll need to be a little lucky, avoid...
JOE GARDI
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than wh...
C.S. LEWIS
It's exciting. It's a great feeling talking about it and not being afraid to say, 'Yeah, we have a g...
VINCE CARTER
If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS...
If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS...
We are showing improvement. We have a young team, and we're playing some pretty good teams in tourna...
BILL WOLF
We are fortunate to have proven returning players on attack and we will look to them for not just th...
DAVE PIETRAMALA
It's nice to have kids to come out and meet us, and we get to meet them. It's kind of a little rewar...
CLAY HENSLEY
This is a great group of young men. We have senior leadership as well as a number of quality undercl...
GEORGE NESSMITH
We used to have just one little shelf devoted to local history. We have tremendous new resources now...
ESTELLE PERRAULT
It's a pretty exciting time going into these games. We were strong in 2002 and we're just as strong ...
BILL TAVARES
We need players to know exactly what we're doing, so we need to simplify some things. It's good to h...
DICK TOMEY
We have a lot of new faces, a lot of guys in camp. It's going to be great to see the guys again. It ...
GARY MAJEWSKI
They're a great team, a great program. We showed some character in the first half, but we have to pu...
DANA ROSS
We just have to go back to practice and prepare. Defensively, we had some breakdowns tonight. We jus...
JOE KNIGHT
Thirty-one years is a long time, and it's almost hard to believe with such a great program that we h...
JOE WALTERS
We have to take a new look at our athletic program and decide how we can best maximize our resources...
EUGENE WHITE
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART
It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL
I feel very confident about the relays we have qualified, and it looks like Drake is going to be a r...
BOB SCHMIDT
I know I'm leaving some good friends, but I don't think I will have trouble making new friends. We h...
JACK DAVENPORT
There is a wait-and-see attitude on the part of many observers, ... But we believe there have been s...
PAUL FITZHENRY
I couldn't believe it. We have only been waiting just a couple of months and some people wait years.
BRANDY OAKS
If I had to say the one reason I think we will be all right it would be our experience. We have some...
JEFF MYAER
Since the fall of 2004, we've had to curtail our program to the point where we've stopped ordering n...
CHARLES YACKLY
We're going to be real good in the future but we just have to give these kids some playing time.
MIKE VERRILL
We came in, and it was kind of rough, because we struggled for a couple of years. But, you know, we ...
ASHANTI COOK
I'd like to think we have a chance, and I stress a chance, to be pretty good. We've got some good pi...
ALEX CHERNEY
I just think the overall group has come together. The attitude was terrific fighting through adversi...
JOE BRESCHI
Defensively, we are pretty solid, but on the offensive side we have some question marks. Between our...
JOE MAHER
This season, we have a lot of talent and leadership in our upper classmen and a ton of talent in our...
ANNE MOORE
Change is always exciting, ... The new look for the Eagles, and with the leadership of our new head ...
DENNIS ROBERTS
Some of the random stuff we have at the moment could be the most exciting. [We're] trying to figure ...
THOM YORKE

More Eric Ries

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene...
ERIC RIES
There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the ...
ERIC RIES
Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So...
ERIC RIES
When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the b...
ERIC RIES
Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot...
ERIC RIES
In my first start-up, I had an initial advertising budget of $5 per day total. That would buy us 100...
ERIC RIES
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of...
ERIC RIES
I bet the people who are in the auto industry right now have more than 10,000 good ideas about what ...
ERIC RIES
There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile...
ERIC RIES
The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepre...
ERIC RIES
I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gende...
ERIC RIES
There's nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are abl...
ERIC RIES
It was 1999, and we were building a way for college kids to create online profiles for the purpose o...
ERIC RIES
The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involve...
ERIC RIES
The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered b...
ERIC RIES
Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being i...
ERIC RIES
You get a culture of entrepreneurship after you have successfully changed the accountability system ...
ERIC RIES
Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. S...
ERIC RIES
As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that...
ERIC RIES
I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in...
ERIC RIES
The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts an...
ERIC RIES
When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions...
ERIC RIES
The problem with entrepreneurship is we are often working really hard producing high quality product...
ERIC RIES
I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the &#...
ERIC RIES
People are accustomed to thinking of accounting as dry and boring, a necessary evil used primarily t...
ERIC RIES
Building the right product requires systematically and relentlessly testing that vision to discover ...
ERIC RIES
I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.
ERIC RIES
You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and...
ERIC RIES
Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to d...
ERIC RIES
The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste les...
ERIC RIES
Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds...
ERIC RIES
Most entrepreneurs don't need as many customers as they think. A lot of people think 10 is too f...
ERIC RIES
It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. Peo...
ERIC RIES
We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market ...
ERIC RIES
Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that...
ERIC RIES
She is the Donald Trump of the younger generation,
AL RIES
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an iv...
AL RIES
Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.
AL RIES
It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company t...
AL RIES
Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated soci...
AL RIES
Don't overlook the importance of worldwide thinking. A company that keeps its eye on Tom, Dick and ...
AL RIES
He said, 'Yeah, let's do it,' ... Then he said, 'You should ask Keith [Richards].' I didn't want to ...
TIM RIES
They already, in a sense, lease space on their home page to others, such as Drugstore.com and Pets.c...
DAN RIES
With the Stones, it's not like you're a side saxophone player,
TIM RIES
Големите компании виждат нещата такива, кавито са. Пре�...
AL RIES
They've got to show the Street and they've got to do it themselves, to get the stock going again, th...
DAN RIES
They really layered in a whole lot more infrastructure, so now they have to be even larger to break ...
DAN RIES
You really need someone who's got a feel for the great Australian middle class and what they want to...
IVOR RIES
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
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
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