Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Kennedy was president for only 1,037 days, but during his short tenure, he achieved much. At the Cold War's most dangerous hour,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I believe in tension and release, in that if you stay in the the same tone and mode and intensity for too… — Patricia Rozema Copy Share Image
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I think it gets really dangerous, though, to do it on the show. I think that the writers and producers are very… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
The best time to write is when your life is in the toilet. Writing offers an escape from your problems, so if… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily… — Albert Wohlstetter Copy Share Image
The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
“You can cause earthquakes?” He sighed, a playful look in his eyes. “There’s such a delicious joke there, but I’m going to… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had… — David Berkowitz Copy Share Image
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like… — Francis Aveling Copy Share Image
I grew up here, and it's always been a very diverse community. So for people to come out and say that there's… — James Knowles III Copy Share Image
Humor is a marvelous communications tool, as Reagan has demonstrated so well. He has weathered many a storm that others might not… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Iranian nuclear policy is transparent, and we have opened our facilities to United Nations inspectors. However, we will not abandon the great… — Mir-Hossein Mousavi Copy Share Image
History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and… — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any… — Art Farmer Copy Share Image
“In sign language, conversations like these are unbelievably hard. You must look directly at the person as you talk to him, and… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
MMI brothers were very resistant to women such as Lynn Shiflet and others who emerged as leaders within the OAAU, so one… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
