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“Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The costly aversion of the eyes from death- Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.”

Eye Running Desire Solitude Despite Tension Oblivion Calendars Aversion Rite Fertility

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): 'men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.'”

Source: The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability

“If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.”

Ifs Giving Long Sometimes Enough Reality Together Divine Birth Opposites Being True Tension Vessel

Author:Marie-Louise von Franz

“Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.”

People Goal Achieve Activity Tension Achieving Goals

Book:Mastering Your Time

Source: Mastering Your Time

“It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.”

Art Light Strange Findings Photography Familiar Primaries Tension Collision

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.”

Source: Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels

“But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the truth of what we feel or the truth of our reality. Nor does it allow us to minimize the humanity of those who hurt us. Rather, we are asked to know ourselves enough that we can stay open to the truth of others, even when their truth or their inability to live up to their truth has hurt us.”

Knows Giving Feels Doe Enough Reality Humanity Waiting Sides Hurt Compassion Practice Giving Up Deeper Tension Inability Choosing Sides

Author:Mark Nepo

“It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy.”

Ifs Thinking Stories Seems Happens Causes Easy Successful Comedy Drama Conflict Love Story Tension Misunderstanding Iconic Discord Escapists

Author:Claire Danes

“I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the art world has to join us, women artists, not we join it. When women are in leadership roles and gain rewards and recognition, then perhaps 'we' (women and men) can all work together in art world actions.”

“The ability to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new idea that contains elements of the opposing ideas but is superior to each.”

Ideas Faces Form Ability Creative Elements Superiors Tension Resolution Expenses New Ideas Opposing Choosing One Opposing Ideas

Book:The Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking

Source: The Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking

“It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.”

Tension Guts

Book:The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?

Source: The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?

“The easiest way to make something cool is to get cool people to do it. Part of this might mean the president has to forget tensions with opponents, or people like Arnold Schwarzenegger who has actually been decent with oil issues. Maybe he needs to pull some of the cool people in and make them model the right behaviors.”

People Way Needs Mean Might President Forget Issues Behavior Models Oil Opponents Tension Decent Schwarzenegger Cool People

Author:Denis Hayes

“In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.”

Feels Real Ends Acting Conditions Drama Directors Tension

Author:Paul Greengrass

“Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are no longer needed. Lean prose, great characters, and almost unbearable tension ensure that Robopocalypse is going to be a blockbuster. Once started I defy anyone to put it down.”

“Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing one thing at a time with quiet deliberateness. Always allow yourself a sufficient margin of time in which to do your work well. Frequently examine your working methods to discover and eliminate unnecessary tension. Aim at poise, repose, and self-control. The relaxed worker accomplishes most.”

“Be very careful that you do not unconsciously assume that nervous tension is power. This is vital. Watch yourself the next time you work toward some goal. Look very closely to discover tense feelings and nervous thoughts whirling around inside. Do not let them deceive you into assuming that they are creative forces; they are not. They are thieves of genuine powers. As always, your awareness of their thievery is your first fine step toward casting them out.”

Firsts Looks Feelings Next Force Goal Steps Watches Creative Awareness Fine Assuming Careful Genuine Nervous Tension Thieves Deceiving Next Time Casting Tense Thievery

Author:Vernon Howard

“The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested”

Quiet Constitution Tragedy Trauma Terrorism Tension Tranquility Tested Turmoil

Author:Michael M. Honda

“The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.”

Political Desire Certain Politics Issues Taken Position Currents Arise Tension Contribution Activist Requirements

Book:Women, Culture & Politics

Source: Women, Culture & Politics

“Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.”

Right Now Conflict Radio Tension Resentment Recruit Talk Radio

Author:John Avlon

“The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.”

Way Trying Looks Art Lying Art Is Window Appearance Surface Holes One Way Tension Introducing Beneath The Surface

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.”

“The life we live today - the environment in which we live - is not one of security - it's one of doubt, one of suspicion, one of absolute tension - we're not a pastoral society any more. We feel around us the pressure of man's inadequacy to control his own development. The time when the great forces of nature, the stones and the rocks, were the gods, is gone.”

Men Feels Today Force Gone Doubt Environment Rocks Security Development Stones Absolutes Pressure Tension Suspicion Live For Today Inadequacy Forces Of Nature

Author:Reg Butler

“Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.”

Mind Wells Problem Body Modern Capable Ideals Meetings Complexes Nervous Tension Balanced Shelter Housing Fatigue Pilates Complex Problems

Book:Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology

Source: Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology

“The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of the individuals. Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Part of the identity of a place is the tension between those in the margins, and those in the center, and they all live behind the walls which wear the tradition.”

Giving Trying Fighting Names Individual Voice Behinds Heard Identity Wall Perception Tradition Distance Tension Mask Margins Always Trying Reluctant

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“The best way to offset tension is with physical activity.”

Way Activity Best Way Tension Physical Activity

Book:Teach Your Baby to Swim

Source: Teach Your Baby to Swim

“The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.”

Persons Two Hours Stage Average Breathe Release Tension Relaxation Session

Author:Leonard Orr

“Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual tensions and the unhappiness roiling below the surface of our prim suburban lives. Meanwhile I was a suburban bad boy - cynical, sarcastic, contemptuous of all authority.”

“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.”

Play Together Political Feminism Humour Serious Method Strategy Irony Tension Contradiction Resolve Socialist Rhetorical Rhetorical Strategies

Author:Donna J. Haraway

“So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.”

Want Littles Sports New York Fine Tension Little Things

Author:Latrell Sprewell

“Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are all green fruits and green vegetables.”

Heart Helping Quality Influence Humility Green Fruit Generosity Tension Cooperation Vegetables Vibrations Alleviate

Author:Tae Yun Kim

“Maberry is a master at writing scenes that surge and hum with tension. The pacing is relentless. He presses the accelerator to the floor and never lets up, taking you on a ride that leaves your heart pounding. It's almost impossible to put this book down. Dead of Night is an excellent read.”

Writing Heart Book Night Impossible Masters Scene Presses Excellent Tension Relentless Pacing Heart Pounding

Author:S.G. Browne

“It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.”

People World Life Looks Doe Seems This World Universal Difficulty Victim Tension Scapegoat

Book:Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery

Source: Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery

“If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.”

Ifs Knows Film Ears Tension Purses

Author:Dennis Weaver

“The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.”

Feels Humans I Can Self Life Is Debate Instance Human Life Tension Yes And No

Author:Anatole Broyard

“The 'enemy' in golf is tension.”

Enemy Golf Tension

Author:Bobby Jones

“Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.”

People Trying Motivational Comfort Pressure Absence Complaining Tension Boredom Zone Comfort Zone

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.”

Sometimes Helping Turns Realizing Entrepreneur Tension Disagree

Author:Craig Newmark

“My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is that he felt that color came out of tension between light and dark. I think that is very appropriate when you think about the kind of color that I shoot.”

Thinking Kind Light Courses Felt Understanding Dark Color Theory Aspect Scientist Philosopher Tension Appropriate Light And Dark

Author:Alex Webb

“The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.”

Thinking Needs Children Self Home School Suffering Parent Study Environment Teacher Taught Tension Supportive Homework Best Teacher Organised Best School Schoolwork Home Environment

Author:Sugata Mitra

“"Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are and what you want to be. A wants to be B - the ego is created out of this very tension. How does the ego die? The ego dies by you accepting what you are. That you say, "I am fine as I am, where I am is good. I will remain just as existence keeps me. Its will is my will."”

Want Doe Dies Process Existence Accepting Fine Ego What You Want Tension

Author:Rajneesh

“"The ego is created by the rift. When you are fighting, the ego comes in; when you are not fighting, the ego cannot come in. Ego is a tension. If you want the ego, then divide yourself as fully as possible - become two persons. That is what is happening to many people, that is what has happened to whole of humanity. Everybody has become two persons: one voice says "Do this," the other voice says "Don't do that" - then the ego arises. Out of friction ego arises, and ego is very intoxicating; it makes you unconscious. This is the whole mechanism."”

People Ifs Want Persons Two Whole Humanity Fighting Voice Happened Ego Happenings Arise Tension Unconscious Divides Mechanism Friction Rift

Author:Rajneesh

“A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“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 superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of high tension. "In the dance even the weakest can do wonders."”

States Can Do Wonder Dancing Dance Tension Dancer Staying Superhuman Hypnosis Staying Power Superhuman Powers

Author:Curt Sachs

“Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.”

Ifs Play Beautiful Life Is Lying Sound Wise Middle Produce Tension Strings Life Is Like Harps

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.”

People Men Wonderful Men And Women Tension Requirements Single Life Lots Of Friends Platonic Wonderful Times Platonic Relationship

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.”

“Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.”

Giving Body Your Body Heal Tension Fasting Nervousness Time Heals Heal Itself Digestive System

Book:Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God

Source: Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God

“Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now.”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client. A tension - sometimes constructive, other times uncomfortable - has been prevalent in the field between one impulse toward structure and recognition and another toward freedom and flexibility to be responsive to individual circumstances”

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