Eric Hoffer Quotes

he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.

Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.

I started music to be myself - to release and express - so I have to make sure that I'm staying true to me and making myself happy.

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.

I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same DNA as you, with the same experiences. There is something that you were meant to do as an individual. You have some kind of creative skill. It can either be creating your own business in some level, being a writer, an artist, whatever, or it can even be working within a company, but from within that company you're creating something.

The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.

Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the small little ideas that creep up in your mind, often contain the germ of a much larger project. All great art wasn't born as great art. It first needed to be recognized by the artist him/herself. Through his or her belief in it, it became true.

In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.

People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.

We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.

When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content.

If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it