Tension Quotes - Page 6

• Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

  Peter Shepherd

  Wisdom, Creativity, Reality

  Peter Shepherd (2010). “Daring to Be Yourself”, p.198, DoctorZed Publishing

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• When you start your meditation, picture a beautiful blue sky without any clouds in it. Feel that your body is growing lighter. Visualize that you are floating in the sky and that all tension, fatigue, worry and problems have left you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Clouds, Blue

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• Take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Mentally picture all tiredness, tension, and fatigue leaving you. Visualize that a wave of golden light is entering you at the top of your head and passing throughout your entire body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Leaving, Entering

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• Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties and problems are being washed away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Worry, Joy, Anxiety

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• Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Feelings, Energy

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• Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

  Henry Moore

  Talking, Energy, Release

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• What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

  Doris Lessing

  Months, October, Unendurable

  'The Martha Quest' (1952) pt. 4, ch. 1

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• We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

  Earl Warren

  Diversity, Gains, Bitter

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• Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of their own in accordance with the inherent laws from which they are separately derived. Both, however, aim toward the realization of the same image. And both deal with the depth problem.

  Hans Hofmann

  Color, Law, Depth

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Search for the Real in the Visual Arts", p. 45, 1948.

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• All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors, of lights, and darkness, of movement, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Family, Children, Light

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• The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Standing Apart, Standing, Involved

  Nadine Gordimer (1983). “Selected Stories”, Viking Press

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• Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

  Rollo May

  Worry, Boredom, Anxiety

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• People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Stress, Technology, People

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• The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Principles, Sculpture, Passionate

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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• There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement which our eyes cannot catch although it can be felt. In art this state is called dynamic movement.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Eye, Movement

  'Cubofuturism', Malevich, in Essays on Art, op. cit., Vol 2.; as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 59, 1913.

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• The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Genius, Incompleteness, Genius And Madness

  Edgar Allan Poe (1849). “The Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.509

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• There is no greater block to world peace or inner peace than fear. What we fear we tend to develop an unreasoning hatred for, so we come to hate and fear. This not only injures us psychologically and aggravates world tension, but through such negative concentration we tend to attract the things we fear. If we fear nothing and radiate love, we can expect good things to come. How much this world needs the message and example of love and of faith!

  Peace Pilgrim

  Hate, Block, Hatred

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• When we smile, the muscles around our mouth are stretched and relaxed, just like doing yoga. Smiling is mouth yoga. We release the tension from our face as we smile. Others who run into us notice it, even strangers, and are likely to smile back. It is a wonderful chain reaction that we can initiate, touching the joy in anyone we encounter. Smiling is an ambassador of goodwill.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Running, Yoga

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• In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Thinking, Phones

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• Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to life. It only brings misery, anxiety, torture, and tension, because whenever you do anything halfheartedly you are dividing yourself into two parts, and that is one of the greatest calamities that has happened to human beings - they are all split.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Heart, Two

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• If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Hug, Heat

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• When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places. You can't do anything well except get angrier. That's why I like fighting guys who are pumped up on steroids. Fighting is all about relaxing and releasing tension, so your body is flexible and fluid, able to bend and flex quickly, like water. I like fighting angry guys who are really tense. They can't think right, and they can't fight right.

  Frank Shamrock

  Fighting, Thinking, Mma

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• Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.

  e. e. cummings

  Heart, Circles, Inward

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• Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.

  Alfred Brendel

  Art, Order, Giving

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• The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.

  Peter Turchi

  Book, Games, Giving

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