Eric Hoffer Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Death, Literature

• Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Exaggeration Is, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

• The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

  Eric Hoffer

  Excellence, Desire, Realizing

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

• This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Building Up, Effort

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

• This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Effort, Desire

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