Tension Quotes - Page 24

• Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are all green fruits and green vegetables.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Heart, Humility, Vegetables

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• Maberry is a master at writing scenes that surge and hum with tension. The pacing is relentless. He presses the accelerator to the floor and never lets up, taking you on a ride that leaves your heart pounding. It's almost impossible to put this book down. Dead of Night is an excellent read.

  S.G. Browne

  Book, Writing, Heart

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• If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

  Dennis Weaver

  Ears, Purses, Film

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• The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

  Anatole Broyard

  Self, Yes And No, Debate

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• The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Enemy

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• Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, People, Boredom

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

  Sugata Mitra

  Teacher, Children, School

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• "Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are and what you want to be. A wants to be B - the ego is created out of this very tension. How does the ego die? The ego dies by you accepting what you are. That you say, "I am fine as I am, where I am is good. I will remain just as existence keeps me. Its will is my will."

  Rajneesh

  Ego, Doe, Want

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• A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Cooking, Example

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders."

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Hypnosis, Dancing

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• A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Sweet

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Men, People, Single Life

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• The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.

  David Deida

  Letting Go, Sex, Giving Up

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• Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Heal Itself, Giving, Fasting

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.40, Charisma Media

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• Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client. A tension - sometimes constructive, other times uncomfortable - has been prevalent in the field between one impulse toward structure and recognition and another toward freedom and flexibility to be responsive to individual circumstances

  Bob Benson

  Healing, Heart, Technique

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• We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts as we know them, not as we imagine them to be. We must learn to live with crisis in an age which calls for cool heads and accurate appraisals.

  Percy Spender

  Age, Facts, Trouble

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• In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed.

  Mahbub ul Haq

  Children, Mean, Analysis

  Mahbub ul Haq, Institute of Social Sciences (New Delhi, India) (2001). “Human development in South Asia: concepts, concerns, agenda for action”

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• Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.

  Will Self

  Philosophy, Writing, Creativity

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• When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

  Dale Carnegie

  Gratitude, Luck, Why Not

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• Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic adult sins; when he postpones immediate pleasures for the sake of long-term values.... Our generation must be inspired to search for that maturity which will manifest itself in the qualities of tenacity, dependability, co-operativeness and the inner drive to work and sacrifice for a nobler future of mankind.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Sacrifice, Maturity, Our Generation

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• Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly.

  Tito Vilanova

  Success, Football, Believe

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• The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

  Clay Shirky

  Media, Goal, Quality

  Clay Shirky (2010). “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators”, p.33, Penguin

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• The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Cousin, Laughter, Stress

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• There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains moments of nearly proselike colloquial narrative along with moments of powerful lyrical tension. There is a movement of extremes, from powerful tonality to near atonality, and I like this a great deal; it's a stance that very effectively catches the spirit that makes work in poetry possible nowadays.

  Giovanni Raboni

  Strong, Powerful, Movement

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• Woven through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions which intrigue beyond the beautifully-painted forms of the subjects.

  Will Barnet

  Unique, Emotional, Light

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