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Tension is the great integrity. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Music is like a huge release of tension. -- James Taylor
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. -- Joshua L. Liebman
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice. -- Zack de la Rocha
We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. -- George Burns
Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve. -- Joan Z. Borysenko
To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you. -- Byron Katie
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. -- Woody Allen
A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety. -- Paulo Coelho
You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension. -- F. Matthias Alexander
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. -- Eric Hoffer
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. -- William James
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. -- Henry David Thoreau
Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being. -- Donald Curtis
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. -- Erich Fromm
Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are. -- Tom Peters
There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. -- Eric Hoffer
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. -- Henry Moore
I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next. -- Sarah McLachlan
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. -- Rollo May
Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person. -- Tullian Tchividjian
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. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tension of opposites. -- Mitch Albom
Tension is wonderful for making people laugh. -- John Cleese
Tension is a prerequisite for creative living. -- Agnes Meyer Driscoll
Narrative Tension is primarily about witholding information. -- Ian Mcewan
Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun. -- Alfred Bester
Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it. -- Rex Brandt
Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness -- Oswald Spengler
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed. -- William James
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man. -- Criss Jami
Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense. -- Bear McCreary
I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.' -- Alexandre Aja
The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action. -- Graham Greene
Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun. -- Alfred Bester
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
Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give? -- Chief Bender
Tension pulled my eyes open when her fingers traced a trail down my neck. Sensation blossomed, and I threw my head back and sucked in the air. Her arm slipped around my waist, catching me before I fell. -- Kim Harrison
Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild cherry sauce and then had to lie down and cry for a while. -- Nigella Lawson
You can cut the tension with a cricket stump. -- Murray Walker
Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters. -- Allen Klein
One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing. -- Byron Nelson
So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount. -- Donald Norman
The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe. -- Paulo Coelho
I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up. -- Matt LeBlanc
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. -- Mike Honda
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. -- Benito Mussolini
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. -- Anatole Broyard
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul. -- Paulo Coelho
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. -- Henri Nouwen
I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in, so that the white racist person can become entertaining to a viewer. -- Bill Cosby
Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing. -- Eminem
Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. -- Brian Eno
It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out. -- Mehmet Oz
The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger. -- Bill Dedman
I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary. -- Melanie Lynskey
The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me. -- Loudon Wainwright III
I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses. -- Jimmy Connors
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry -- Eckhart Tolle
The 'enemy' in golf is tension. -- Bobby Jones
Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information, -- Ian Mcewan
Happiness is the relief after extreme tension -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let the music diffuse all the tension. -- Nas
Let the music defuse all the tension. -- Kanye West
I am not afraid of the word tension. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One should never create tension between one's footwear. -- Rachel Caine
You have to create tension between reality and aspiration -- Sumantra Ghoshal
To get along with me, don't increase my tension. -- Ty Cobb
The greater the tension, the greater is the potential. -- Carl Jung
It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension. -- Seth Godin
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change. -- James C. Collins
Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes. -- William Landay
Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension. -- Lorrie Moore
The best way to offset tension is with physical activity. -- Bonnie Prudden
Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show. -- Rob Corddry
Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry. -- Jeffery Taylor
In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension. -- Gene Black
Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. -- David Guterson
I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person. -- Andrew Denton
Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face. -- Lauren Hutton
Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too. -- Lee Child
Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving. -- Brian Tracy
In California, there is a strong tension between north and south. -- Thomas Mars
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. -- Quincy Jones
When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible. -- Mooji
Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it. -- Seth Godin
I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home. -- Christina Aguilera
Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension. -- Russell M. Nelson
I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood. -- Michael Eric Dyson
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. -- John W. Gardner
A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving. -- Denis Waitley
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month? -- Doris Lessing
There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido. -- Peter Shepherd
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. -- Georg Simmel
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Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. -- Denis Waitley
The one arm one leg pushup is an exercise in total body tension -- Pavel Tsatsouline
Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving. -- Dennis Waitley
There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter. -- Twyla Tharp
God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not. -- Donald Miller
Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make. -- Henry Moore
I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent. -- Gene Luen Yang
If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving? -- Andrea Dworkin
Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty. -- Robert Venturi
Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension. -- Vladimir Putin
Please don't tell me to relax, it's only my tension that's holding me together. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil. -- Colin Powell
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity. -- Mahmoud Darwish
I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. -- Shirley Manson
One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good -- Albert Einstein
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience -- Bridget Riley
All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form. -- Robin Morgan
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer. -- Nadine Gordimer
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience. -- Bridget Riley
If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension. -- Anthony Hopkins

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