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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
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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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The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.
Carl Jung
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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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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
Nadine Gordimer
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You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.
F. Matthias Alexander
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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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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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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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Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.
Rex Brandt
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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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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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I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience
Bridget Riley
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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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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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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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We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
Stephen Covey
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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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One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good
Albert Einstein
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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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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 find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
Tatiana Maslany
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The greatest communicators have unknowingly used a story pattern. They not only use anecdotes effectively, but their communication followed a persuasive story pattern of tension and release. That tension and release is created by contrasting [what is] with what could be as a structural device.
Nancy Duarte
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I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
Andrew Denton