Eric Hoffer Quotes About Overcoming

Quotes about: Overcoming

• The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

  Eric Hoffer

  Ideas, Overcoming, Links

• The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

  Eric Hoffer

  Overcoming, Inferiority, Resentment

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

• Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Overcoming, Want

• The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Effort, Soul

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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