Tensionless Quotes

#1. What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Viktor E. Frankl

#2. What a man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.

Viktor E. Frankl

#3. When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

Bertrand Russell

#4. The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

#5. Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Guy Debord

#6. No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

Robert Greene

#7. A fool can read a thousand books and learn nothing.
A wise person can read one and become great. Using books for decoration is what ordinary men do. Using books for knowledge is what intelligent people do.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite ... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

Charles Dance

#9. A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

Mike Krzyzewski

#11. What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

Steven Strait

#12. But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.

Earl Browder