Eric Hoffer Quotes

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

When you admit that you are married, people try to get skeletons out of your closet. They dig into your personal lives and link you with strangers, which could be detrimental. They also want to know details about your marriage, children, and so on. I wanted to keep it private because I only want my work to speak.

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

I'm a happy guy, but if I'm in a rare dark mood, I won't go out because I don't want to be horrible to people.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.

Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!

Now, boys, let me tell you something. Sometimes you may see me coming out of a room in the White House with a woman. You just remember that it is none of your business.

I don't like to be talked about, especially by somebody that doesn't know me.

People should mind their own business. This particularly applies to those who are inquisitive, and those who jump to conclusions.

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

Don't stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.

Mind your own business.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick

If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party, what are you running away from?

But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go unconscious again, to fall back into an automatic-pilot mode of unawareness. These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change.

They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends.