Tension Quotes - Page 25

• There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension.

  Louise Dickinson Rich

  Air, Nervous, Sunlight

  Louise Dickinson Rich (1963). “The forest years: containing in one volume We took to the woods [and] My neck of the woods”

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• Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.

  Jessica Helfand

  Eye, Light, Color

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• Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write it, then we’ll talk about it.

  Donald Margulies

  Writing, Doe, Needs

  Donald Margulies (2012). “Collected Stories”, p.16, Theatre Communications Group

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• Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story – what happens before the novel opens – is especially troublesome. How can we give the essentials and avoid a mere information drop?
  Use dialogue. First, create a tension-filled scene, usually between two characters. Get them arguing, confronting each other. Then you can have the information appear in the natural course of things.

  James Scott Bell

  Struggle, Writing, Character

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• Meditation is meeting eternity in the present moment. It is resolving every problem as it comes. It is resolving every tension as it creeps in. It is facing the challenges of life in a non-fearful way.

  Vimala Thakar

  Practice, Meditation, Challenges

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• Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge is never ending perfection is impossible, it could always be different, better, or worse. It's not important, just process and striving to be like the man who walks the trapeze maintaining balance.

  Dave Liebman

  Art, Men, Two

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• Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of theatre that I have my being. In spite of jealousies and fears, emotional conflicts and human tensions; in spite of the penalty of success and the dread of failure; in spite of tears and feverish gaiety this is the only life I know. It is the life I love.

  Robert Helpmann

  Emotional, Community, Tears

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• When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible.

  Mooji

  Intention, Flexible

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• When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

  Mort Walker

  Stars, Soldier, Black

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• There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

  Leon Kass

  World, Ancient, Given

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• You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety, tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the mind from being free, will keep the mind from experiencing its infinite potential, will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on this planet.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Powerful, Worry, Anxiety

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• Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with any rigid formula or methods. Whenever you are aware of your mental or physical feelings like tension in the muscles, movement of limbs, stiffness, heat or cold, you have begun to develop special understanding of realities.

  Amit Ray

  Reality, Understanding, Feelings

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• Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

  Judith Stone

  Two, Progress, Stem

  Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books

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• I am not afraid of the word tension.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Not Afraid, Creative Tension

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.58, Beacon Press

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• Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Live Life, Conflict, Internals

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• Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension, overambition, excessive caution, and dozens of other psychological factors.

  Pal Benko

  Mistake, Errors, Feelings

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• Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like lean, frenzied dogs. Extreme hunger has a way of creating these emotions in even the most mil-mannered people.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Dog, Air, Creating

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• My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Moving, Creativity, Reflection

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• From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.

  Jules Verne

  Spring, Future, Independent

  Jules Verne (2014). “All Around The Moon”, p.111, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Arrows, Relaxation, Shooting

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• By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix will become uninhabitable, as will parts of Beijing (desert), Miami (rising seas) and London (floods). Food shortages will drive millions of people north, raising political tensions.

  James Lovelock

  Moving, Atlanta, Europe

  "James Lovelock, the Prophet" by Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.

  Konstantin Chernenko

  War, Nuclear, Pushing

  Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (1984). “Speeches and Writings”, Pergamon

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• I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

  Christina Aguilera

  Growing Up, Home, Son

  "Christina Aguilera Goes Nude, Beyonce Strips for W Magazine", toofab.com. June 15, 2011.

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• Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Artist, Order, Opposites

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.571, Vintage

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• Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Happiness, Laughter, Pain

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