We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But … - Eric Hoffer

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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

Eric Hoffer

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About Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer (25 July 1902 – 21 May 1983) was an American writer on social and political philosophy. His first book, The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements (1951) is widely recognized as a classic on mass-movements and the psychological roots of fanaticism. Despite rising to fame with the success and popularity of his writings, he continued to work as a longshoreman until retiring at age 65.

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The main requirements seem to be: audacity and a joy in defiance; an iron will; a fanatical conviction that he is in possession of the one and only truth; faith in his destiny and luck; a capacity for passionate hatred; contempt for the present; a cunning estimate of human nature;

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own … - Eric Hoffer

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