Tension Quotes - Page 20

• The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess.

  Richard Reti

  Play, People, Soul

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• The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both have the flash of enlightenment, the almost incredibly enhanced vision, and the ecstasy and euphoria of released tension.

  Paul Halmos

  Truth, Learning, Math

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• Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Fighting, Anxiety

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• Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.

  Jeffery Taylor

  Karma, Thread, Tapestry

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• Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, resentment, a feeling of not being appreciated, a feeling of futility, hurry, anxiety, worry-those are the emotional factors that exhaust the sitting worker, make him susceptible to colds, reduce his output, and send him home with a nervous headache. Yes, we get tired because our emotions produce nervous tensions in the body.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Attitude, Home

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• Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents couldn't appreciate her music - it wouldn't appear to be hard work to them. Menolly shook her hands, letting them flap from her wrists. They ached and trembled from the constricted movements and tension of an hour of intensive playing. No, her parents would never understand that playing musical instruments could be as hard work as sailing or fishing.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Music, Running, Hard Work

  "Dragonsinger".

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• I am very intense. I can't help it. That's the way I am. You can't be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can't help but show on you.

  Irene Cara

  Way, Pressure, Helping

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• Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing ones guard, which almost everyone thinks is bad. Relaxation, like Miltown, is not an end in itself. Not all danger comes from tension. The reverse relation, to be tense where there is danger, is only rational.

  Albert Wohlstetter

  Fear, Thinking, Relaxation

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• People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust and love that I’m very committed to. These guys would die for each other, and it’s very beautiful. But at the same time, you can’t keep that safety. Things have to go wrong, bad things have to happen.

  Joss Whedon

  Beautiful, Character, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 05, 2001.

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  A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Art, Essentials, Doe

  Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.141, Amadeus Press

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• I'd take out a joint and light it. First, just faking it. Then I started lighting live joints, passing them around to the band, you know. I was great, it relieved all my tensions. And I ended up with the greatest supply of grass ever. Other acts up and down the Strip heard about what I was doing - Little Anthony and the Imperials, people like that - and started sending me the best dope in the world. I never ran out.

  Barbra Streisand

  Dope, Light, People

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• Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Fun, Humor, Littles

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• The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.

  Roger Ebert

  Breathing Space, Degrees, Dimensions

  Roger Ebert (2003). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004”, p.740, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is The Shining. I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

  Caity Lotz

  Shining, Fans, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

  Peter Rollins

  True Joy, Fragility, Possibility

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• I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of the culture, such as religion.

  Brian Evenson

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediately.

  Sol Stein

  Jobs, Opposites, Answers

  Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.106, St. Martin's Press

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• Each increase of tension
  has produced an increase of arms;
  each increase of arms
  has produced an increase of tension.

  John F. Kennedy

  Arms, Increase

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

  Wally Schirra

  Stress, Boredom, Levity

  Ed Buckbee, Wally Schirra (2005). “The Real Space Cowboys”, Collectors Guide Pub

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• The one arm one leg pushup is an exercise in total body tension

  Pavel Tsatsouline

  Exercise, Body, Legs

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• Activities are a real blessing to a family. They provide a way to have fun together, relieve tensions, and develop relationships on new levels with one another.

  Gene R. Cook

  Fun, Real, Blessing

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• Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth, and do so easily following every stress that produces a state of tension in the body... Human beings are the only creatures who can react in this way to stress and tension. Most probably, they are the only ones who need this form of release.

  Alexander Lowen

  Stress, Needs, Body

  Alexander Lowen (2012). “Narcissism: Denial of the True Self”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram
  remain inaccessible to this state of mind.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, America, Mind

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Interesting, Quality, Elements

  "Women in Design: Annabelle Selldorf". Interview with Vicky Lowry, www.elledecor.com. November 10, 2008.

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• Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Art, Illustration, Practice

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