"Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Ideas Quotes #Action Quotes #Prelude Quotes

“Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.”
“Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.”
“The flower draws its life energy from the soil and from the sun. We are very similar. We continuously receive energy from the earth through our feet and from the air. Energy is everywhere, like love. We just have to open ourselves up to receive it.”
“I enjoy raining on parades and throwing stones in glass homes.”
“The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.”

Source : Jimmy Carter, Bill Adler (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Jimmy Carter”, Book Sales
“I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.”
“You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.”
“Statement earrings and statement necklaces each deserve their own moment. I never wear the two together; it looks overdone.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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