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“The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.”

Art Form Three Perfect Emotion Balance Art Is Function Stress Intellect Primaries Dimensions Strain Living Things Reduction Miniatures Microcosm Perfect Balance Three Dimensions

Author:Lawren Harris

“There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.”

Ifs Form Perfect Numbers Skills Stress Accents Formal Rhyme Puzzles Syllables Crosswords

Author:Carl Sandburg

“I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life. I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.”

Thinking I Can Able Night Perfect Morning Stress Ice Evening Desert Take Me Afternoon Hitting Bats Bumps Geese Take Me Away

Author:Gautam Gambhir

“Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.”

Ifs Trying Sometimes Fun Perfect Too Much Stress Having Fun Backfire Trying To Be Perfect

Author:Chad Pennington

“The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy. When we realize that a perfect equilibrium in our lives might not be the best basis for making art, then we can begin to re-vision our stress points. So rather than try to rid your life of tension, consider doing something more creative with it.”

Source: Trust the Process

“The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.”

Perfect Produce Amount Stress Pressure Versions Tension

Author:Shefali Tsabary

“Festivals are a way for new people to see who you are and you can feel pressured to stand out, but just do your thing and be proud of that. Don't stress out, and know that nothing is supposed to be perfect.”

People Perfect Proud Stress Who You Are Be Proud Standing Out

Author:Kelcey Ayer

“Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses of success and failure, she was entirely free to enjoy the pleasures of the moment... It was a good hobby, and cheap, and if more people did it more often”

People Ifs Moments Sports Enjoy Perfect Pleasure Emotional Activity Stress Fishing Hobbies Hopelessness Success And Failure Buckets Soothing Emotional Stress

Author:Hilary McKay

“There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!”

Ifs Years Today Perfect Issues Waste Years Ago Stress Encouragement Quitting Smoking Distraction Quit Smoking Another Year

Author:Mark Twain

“Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space. They can therefore see, as others cannot, the cracks and buttresses of repeated action, the points of stress, the established framework. They are not perfect; but they are less imperfect than we by a full dimension of being.”

Thinking Men Life Action Past Space Perfect Future Men And Women Stress Dimensions Cracks Imperfect Framework Not Perfect Static Free Man Past Present Past Present And Future

Book:Time and the Art of Living

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.”

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time.”

Way Time Easy Perfect Healthy Stress Relaxed

Book:A Visionary Life: Conversations on Personal and Planetary Evolution

Source: A Visionary Life: Conversations on Personal and Planetary Evolution

“Digestion is quickly shut down during stress…The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of digestion. Along comes stress: turn off parasympathetic, turn on the sympathetic, and forget about digestion.”

Action Turns Perfect Forget Stress Calm Nervous Turn-on Sympathetic Nervous System Turn Off Digestion Physiology

Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

“Yoga is the perfect way to de-stress and work out at the same time.”

Way Perfect Yoga Stress Work Out De Stress

Author:Shannon Elizabeth