“For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.” PeopleProblemHandsTodayMovingYoungChangeDistanceNo ProblemAdjustment Book:The cart and the horse Source: The cart and the horse
“We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.” ThinkingKnowsTodayFailingFailureCostSucceedAwfulFrighteningIgnominy Author:Louis Kronenberger
“Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.” TodaySocialSleepSolitudeCompetitionSocial LifeExhaustingExhilaratingUnendingCompetitivenessSleeplessness Author:Louis Kronenberger
“Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.” PeopleWantMeanTruthTodayAnswersHonestHonestyAnxietyDeceptionDisturbing Author:Louis Kronenberger
“The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of the has-been-a shameful rather than a pitiable sight today-brings a sudden chill even to our sunlit moments.” Has BeensMomentsTodaySuccessWinningTermSightTechniqueChillShamefulTenureIgnoble Author:Louis Kronenberger
