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Tension Quotes

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You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.
J. Paul Getty

Authors on Tension Quotes: Rajneesh Seth Godin Martin Luther King, Jr. Mahmoud Darwish Shirley Manson Bobby Jones John Michael Higgins Ian Mcewan Tatiana Maslany Carl Jung James Taylor Lee Child Russell M. Nelson Andrew Denton Mary Schmich Edgar Allan Poe Oswald Spengler Robert Adams Bonnie Prudden John Oliver F. Scott Fitzgerald Adam Yauch Kevin Spacey James C. Collins Andy Richter Howard Nemerov Ellen Goodman Quincy Jones Manuel Puig St. Lucia Bridget Riley Joo Won F. Matthias Alexander
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I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.
Jacques Derrida

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Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.
Robert Venturi

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Let the music defuse all the tension.
Kanye West

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Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
James C. Collins

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So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
Donald A. Norman

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The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.
Carl Jung

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By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension .
Eugen Herrigel

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The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.
Esther Perel

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Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness
Oswald Spengler

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Tension is the great integrity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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You have to create tension between reality and aspiration
Sumantra Ghoshal

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You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.
F. Matthias Alexander

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Music is like a huge release of tension.
James Taylor

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The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.
Brian Swimme

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There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.
George Meyer

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In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
Ellen Goodman

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

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As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth.
John Oliver

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Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
Brennan Manning

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To get along with me, don't increase my tension.
Ty Cobb

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The 'enemy' in golf is tension.
Bobby Jones

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Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.
Rex Brandt

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The true genius shudders at incompleteness.
Edgar Allan Poe

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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
Quincy Jones

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Please don't tell me to relax, it's only my tension that's holding me together.
Ashleigh Brilliant

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Happiness is the relief after extreme tension
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
Eric Hoffer

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I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
Kevin Spacey

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What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
Paul Valery

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As a person, I do not like tension in squabbles; I also do not like being on tenterhooks. When I am in love, it's the same. Especially with regards to love, I want very much to protect it.
Joo Won

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We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
Stephen Covey

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I am not afraid of the word tension.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The best way to offset tension is with physical activity.
Bonnie Prudden

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Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.
Kenneth Rogoff

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Tension of opposites.
Mitch Albom

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I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience
Bridget Riley

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One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good
Albert Einstein

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There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.
Franck Khalfoun

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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
Mahmoud Darwish

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When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is such a rush.
Danielle LaPorte

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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Manuel Puig

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I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.
John le Carre

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If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.
Adam Yauch

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Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.
Rajneesh

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I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.
Patti Smith

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The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
Robert Adams

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Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.
Agnes Meyer Driscoll