Jens Bjorneboe Quotes

#1. If literature provides solutions, if it provides answers, then it is lying. Rooted in reality as it is, it can only contribute towards posing the questions more sharply and clearly and more drastically than before. In my opinion, creative literature is an empirical science.

Jens Bjorneboe

#2. They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic.

Jens Bjorneboe

#3. I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

Amory Lovins

#4. Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Eric Hoffer

#5. He who hasn't experienced a full depression alone and over a long period of time
he is a child.

Jens Bjorneboe

#6. The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.

Seth

#7. All sailors are afraid of the sea. They know what it is.

Jens Bjorneboe

#8. It doesn't matter what you love,
it matters only that you love.

Jens Bjorneboe

#9. I am not looking to escape the pressure. I am embracing it. Pressure is what builds up in the chamber behind a bullet before it explodes out of the gun.

Ronda Rousey

#10. I am happy today - completely happy - because I died twenty years ago; furthermore I'm happy because I die daily. Every day, at eleven o' clock, I've died twice........After eleven o'clock I'm done with dying for that day.

Jens Bjorneboe

#11. I probably need another couple of years of absorbing that and really looking at it to be able to do it because you actually have to know everybody's job and I don't know everybody's job yet. I'm just now comfortable with my own.

Colin Hanks