Top 100 Hoff Quotes
#1. The Hoff has become larger than life, so I can't do anything small any more. If I mess up, it becomes big no matter what it is, so if I do something positive, it has to be equally big.
David Hasselhoff
#2. The Hoff has taken over David Hasselhoff. David Hasselhoff really doesn't know who he is anymore. Everywhere I go, it's The Hoff.
David Hasselhoff
#3. And if you don't know Which to Do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue... - Winnie the Pooh in The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Iggy Fernandez
#4. Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.
David Hasselhoff
#5. Vic had gotten rid of the Hoff years ago. The Hoff was a loser, and Trans Ams were oil-leaking shitboxes. She didn't miss him.
Joe Hill
#6. To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
Benjamin Hoff
#7. It is very hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
Rabbit, who had begun to write very busily, looked up and said: "It is because you are a very small animal that you will be Useful in the adventure before us.
Benjamin Hoff
#8. In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#9. Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.
Benjamin Hoff
#10. I'm not saying I didn't have a great 2008. I just made it a chore. I made it look laborious.
Katie Hoff
#11. But what is hard to understand is why the math and science gap launched a massive movement on behalf of girls, and yet a much larger gap in reading, writing, and school engagement created no comparable effort for boys.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#12. Release blame. It does not help you to go over and over what you think you should have done or said. Stop blaming other people too. You don't need to make yourself or other people "wrong" in order to deal with your life in the moment.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#13. If I could compete at home, and never leave Rochester, I'd be in perfect condition.
Katie Hoff
#14. The greatest thing that gives me peace about time is knowing that I get to make choices about what I do with it. I also find it amazing that when there is something I really want to do, I find the time for it.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#17. Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.
Benjamin Hoff
#18. Here are young women with more opportunities, more liberties than almost any women in history and at that moment we tell them they're short-changed silenced victims of a patriarchy? It's defeatist and demoralising.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#19. The last few years haven't been as good so I can fly under the radar, come in and do the best I can and I don't have all these high hopes placed on me.
Katie Hoff
#20. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.
Benjamin Hoff
#21. There are a lot of homely women in women's studies. Preaching these anti-male, anti-sex sermons is a way for them to compensate for various heartaches
they're just mad at the beautiful girls.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#23. Inner Nature, when relied on, cannot be fooled. But many people do not look at it or listen to it, and consequently do not understand themselves very much. Having little understanding of themselves, they have little respect for themselves, and are therefore easily influenced by others.
Benjamin Hoff
#24. We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#25. Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with
Benjamin Hoff
#26. Things definitely got out of perspective.
Katie Hoff
#27. Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.
Benjamin Hoff
#28. The play-it-safe pessimists of the world never accomplish much of anything, because they don't look clearly and objectively at situations, they don't recognize or believe in their own abilities to overcome even the smallest amount of risk.
Benjamin Hoff
#29. As you release a belief that doesn't serve you, you want to lock in a new belief that is powerful.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#30. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.
Benjamin Hoff
#31. We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#32. Joy is possible no matter what you have experienced in your life ...
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#33. I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.
Katie Hoff
#34. You don't need to go over every detail of your past, but if something comes up, face it and process those feelings, get to the core belief, so you can shift it.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#35. This is Glasgow," added Chief Ben. "Even the faeries have drug problems.
Amy Hoff
#36. Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn't it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most ... women are not free? They're not self-determining human beings?
Christina Hoff Sommers
#37. I'm more relaxed and just feel like there's kind of a peace with myself.
Katie Hoff
#38. We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it.
Benjamin Hoff
#39. Things may get a little odd at times, but they work out. You don't have to try very hard to make them work out; you just let them.
Benjamin Hoff
#40. I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#41. The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.
Benjamin Hoff
#42. I'm just going to go out there and do my best.
Katie Hoff
#43. Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.
Benjamin Hoff
#44. Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That's why I remember things so well.
Benjamin Hoff
#45. Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.
Benjamin Hoff
#46. To break the mark definitely showed me I'm on the right track.
Katie Hoff
#47. Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and others - alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.
Benjamin Hoff
#48. The Universe knows what it's doing. So don't develop a big ego, and don't be afraid.
Benjamin Hoff
#49. Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.
Benjamin Hoff
#50. A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#51. Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.
Benjamin Hoff
#52. There is more to knowing than just being correct
Benjamin Hoff
#53. It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.
Benjamin Hoff
#54. Wherever Gandhi went, he transformed situations and lives. As one friend and biographer wrote, He ... changed human beings by regarding them not as what they thought they were but as though they were what they wished to be, and as though the good in them was all of them
Benjamin Hoff
#55. I feel like I'm more of the underdog, which is kind of nice.
Katie Hoff
#56. You are wonderfully made. Everything about you is miraculous. Toss aside those self-doubts and criticisms. Celebrate, today, the miracle of you!
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#57. When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.
Benjamin Hoff
#58. Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.
Benjamin Hoff
#59. If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them, said Pooh.
Benjamin Hoff
#60. The Bisy Backson is always going somewhere, somewhere he hasn't been. Anywhere but where he is.
Benjamin Hoff
#61. Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#63. It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#64. Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.
Benjamin Hoff
#65. Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.
Benjamin Hoff
#66. The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.
Benjamin Hoff
#67. Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.
Benjamin Hoff
#68. While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.
Lee Ann Hoff
#69. Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands, because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#70. From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.
Benjamin Hoff
#71. I don't have a specific mantra; It's more about believing that I'm tough. I've been through a lot, and I'm not wiling to let myself get beat.
Katie Hoff
#72. A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.
Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff
#73. No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
Benjamin Hoff
#74. I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#75. Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
Benjamin Hoff
#76. Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#78. Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#79. Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.
Benjamin Hoff
#80. Every choice has a purpose. Every move is deliberate. I am deliberating creating my business and life every day.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#81. Cleverness, as usual, takes all the credit it possibly can. But it's not the clever mind that's responsible when things work out. It's the mind that sees what's in front of it, and follows the nature of things.
Benjamin Hoff
#82. You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.
Benjamin Hoff
#83. I can just put my head down and train hard.
Katie Hoff
#84. The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.
Benjamin Hoff
#85. Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.
Benjamin Hoff
#86. While Eeyore frets ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ... Pooh just is.
Benjamin Hoff
#87. Do you want to be really happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got. Do you want to be really miserable? You can begin by being discontented.
Benjamin Hoff
#88. Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow 'burn their toast a lot,' said Pooh
Benjamin Hoff
#89. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked.
"Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said.
"It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said.
"It is," I said.
"That's not about Taoism," he said.
"Oh, yes it is," I said."
Benjamin Hoff
#90. I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.
Katie Hoff
#91. Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.
Benjamin Hoff
#92. When you change your story that you tell about yourself, you change your life. You can start telling a better story right now.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#93. Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#94. No one likes the word "failure" and no one wants to ever experience failure ... but the truth is that our failures pave the way for our eventual success and we have only truly failed if we stop trying.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#95. Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who seek only the greatest dilution, for in general there is little to make with watery solutions.
Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff
#96. A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.
Benjamin Hoff
#97. It matters not if the world has heard or approves or understands...the only applause we're meant to seek is that of nail-scarred hands.
B.J. Hoff
#98. I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#99. Live each day with more peace, passion, energy, and joy.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#100. A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.
Benjamin Hoff
