Eric Hoffer Quotes

Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.

Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.

For most of my life, I've been in a hurry.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up.

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.

As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person.

All my life, I was always in a hurry! I was always hustling!

My biggest pet peeve is rushing.

Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

It's a great place to be at 36 because you're an adult and you're responsible for how you impact other people, the direction of your own life [too], but you're also young enough to say, "You know what? I'm not sure of where I'm at, and I'm going to change that course and do something different. I'm going to look at life differently." I think that's the magic of that age.

It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day.

For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail.

I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.

I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

Whatever it is that people find that they want to work on they also have to remember that they are human beings and they need to save some time for themselves for personal growth, for mental health, for their families, their loved ones so that they will have the strength to continue doing that work.

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?