A Quote by Eric Hoffer

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

Eric Hoffer

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Eric Hoffer
American - Writer
July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983

You're the only thing I want most in the world yet the one thing I cannot have. Because to have you completely would be impossible. You cannot go where I walk." -Dank "Death" Walker

Abbi Glines

Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.

Patricia Wentworth

The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.

Mike Singletary

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

Hugh Walpole

It is important to be clear about what you want and pursue that passionately.

Sobhita Dhulipala

The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.

Richard Bach

The most frustrating thing is that I want to always buy the best thing, the thing that does the most stuff.

Jerry Zucker

I think no matter what you are going to pursue, if you pursue it like it's the most important thing, then everything else will be lost. And at the end of the day, when it's time to evaluate the path that you chose for your life, there has to be something more.

Annaleigh Ashford

I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just the practical thing. That's why our TVs are rectangles. Even in modern architecture, they want us to believe, "That's the nicest, most beautiful thing." I love modern architecture, but actually it's that they cannot afford amorphous shapes or ornaments.

Pipilotti Rist

That's the other thing that you find most often with women. They're not really concerned about what's happened over the last four years. They really want to know what's going to happen in the next four years.

Stephanie Cutter

Here's the thing: celebrities understand the power of original ideas because often that's why they act. They want to be in movies that tell a story. They know the power of iconic imagery. Often, you find that people really want to participate.

Glenda Bailey

This is very rare for anyone in life to pursue something and that thing being the thing you actually most want to do. It's all about the inner, rather than the outer. Whether people like or don't like my work, read it or don't read it, it's just been a gift from the gods that I've been able to sit at my desk for the last almost 50 years and do the things I've wanted to do.

Paul Auster

I have learnt that gardens are like happiness: you cannot pursue them as an absolute thing or moment.

Monty Don

There is no substitute for hard work, and the most important thing is the belief that you can succeed.

Maneet Chauhan

A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

C. S. Lewis

It's what makes you happy in life, and to pursue it, I think, is brave and a wonderful thing. I don't care what people say. I just want to pursue what makes me happy.

Marvin Gaye

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