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“One of the good things is the relationship between director and editor used to be more contentious. Studios used to leave directors alone more during the post production process and now they're clamoring to get in. So, the director and the editor end up teaming up sort of against the studio to fight what they're doing and you lose the creative tension that you used to have between an editor and a director.”

Ends Used Fighting Process Loses Creative Directors Good Things Productions Studios Used To Be Posts Tension Editors Contentious Post Production Creative Tension Teaming Up

Author:Michael Sucsy

“I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother's journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn't that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present.”

Made Mother Courses Wonder Creative Mystery Empty Leaving Uncertainty Tension Journal Leaving Me Creative Tension

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I've never seen a professor of religion on television before, and I thought that was fascinating. The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.”

World Spirituality Creative Television Conversation Tension Fascinating Professors Practicality Creative Tension

Author:Tim Daly

“The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary traditions in creative tension with one another. This diversity of libertarian ideas has created a culture of freedom which is more open and expansive than any unitary tradition alone could possibly be.”

Important Ideas Different Facts Culture Liberty Creative Diversity Tradition Libertarian Contrary Tension American Liberty Creative Tension

Book:Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

Source: Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

“Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.”

Creative Capacity Perseverance Tension Allies Mastery Creative Tension

Author:Peter Senge

“Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.”

Action Growth Community Creative Issues Type Direct Crisis Violent Tension Not Afraid Ignored Constructive Non Violent Direct Action Creative Tension

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.”

Men Running Willing Despair Cups Endurance Abyss There Comes A Time Creative Tension

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.”

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”

“The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.”

Ifs Needs Reality Would Be Action Moving Energy Vision Creative Source Currents Tension Gaps Creative Tension

Author:Peter Senge

“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.”

Inspirational Action Community Creative Issues Direct Crisis Tension Consistently Direct Action Creative Tension

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.”

Inspirational Action Purpose Situation Doors Direct Crisis Negotiation Direct Action Creative Tension

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“I am not afraid of the word tension.”

Tension Not Afraid Creative Tension

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth”

Growth Type Tension Constructive Creative Tension

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: