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• In desire, there must be some small amount of tension. And that tension comes with the unknown, the unpredictable. You can close yourself off at home and say, "Whew, at last I'm in a place where I don't have to worry," or you can keep yourself open to the mystery and elusiveness of your partner.

  Esther Perel

  Home, Worry, Desire

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game.

  Carlos Cuaron

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or fly my plane. And, when I feel tension about the grind of work, it's not getting the money to make films versus making films that constitutes the grind, it's all this stuff.

  Edward Norton

  Scuba, Stuff, Surf

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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

  Degrees, Bovine, Humans

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• By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

  Stella Gibbons

  Dark, Men, Long

  'Cold Comfort Farm' (1932) ch. 20

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• Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Relief, Extremes

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• In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Imagination, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other people break up or get divorced. I don't think anything is ever going to change that situation. You simply try to find an accommodation and an understanding with another person and work from there.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

  Barack Obama

  Passion, Gun, Giving

  Barack Obama's remarks on Ferguson, Mo. and Iraq at the White House in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. August 18, 2014.

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• I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.

  Richard Benjamin

  Running, Long, Segregation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.

  Sean Scully

  Drawing, Lines, Want

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• These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Spring, Intelligent, Lovely

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

  Albert Einstein

  Constant

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• Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation, and, finally, from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the center of it all.

  Marva Dawn

  Mean, Worry, Effort

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• In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension.

  Gene Black

  Stress, Drawing, Way

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• One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure.

  Andy Richter

  Cancer, Stress, Kids

  Interview with Jonathan R. de la Manzana, Jr., believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Real, Book, Reading

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I actually find something rewarding about that tension between satisfying myself and satisfying others. Because first of all, I can't provide my own structure, and that tension provides a structure for me to actually work within.

  Andy Richter

  Firsts, Structure, My Own

  Interview with Jonathan R. de la Manzana, Jr., believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Fighting, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes into a series of lovely observations about the world, but you've got to find the story.

  Lenny Abrahamson

  Focus, Lovely, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Growth, Causes, Social

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing so. Something always fails, there's always a problem, and photography fails in a certain sense... This is what drives you to the next picture.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Thinking, Perfect

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• Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.

  Brian Tracy

  Stress, Believe, Frustration

  Brian Tracy (2014). “Time Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library)”, p.11, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

  Tim Brown

  Technology, Design, Needs

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• Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him

  Mike Erre

  Jesus, Answers, Mystery

  Mike Erre (2009). “Death by Church”, p.36, Harvest House Publishers

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