A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

About Eric Hoffer

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Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American philosopher and social critic. A moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer wrote ten books over his career and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer (1951), was widely...

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people—we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

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The future is much like the present, only longer.

—Dan Quisenberry

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

I never think of the future—it comes soon enough.

—Albert Einstein

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

—Charles M. Schulz

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

—Peter Drucker

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