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
There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
“The suit gave him strength, but not freedom. It gave him youth, but not peace. It gave him Lucian’s gaze— and that… — Valon G Copy Share Image
Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind… — Joseph Pilates 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
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“He chucked her under the chin. The way he had at the Belian shrine. Everything about this moment carried echoes of before,… — Thea Guanzon Copy Share Image
The desire to please your boss is a good thing, but it could mutate into a weakness. One of the first challenges… — Chip Espinoza Copy Share Image
Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I still think there's some tension . But it's pretty clear that, when the president made his statements as a candidate, he's… — Amy Walter Copy Share Image
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
I've got to be honest, I absolutely don't like designing romances. I think that you get a lot more drama and impact… — Chris Avellone Copy Share Image
I love Topsail Island, which my grandparents helped settle in 1950, despite the racial tensions. I wanted to immortalize my deep connection… — Rolonda Watts Copy Share Image
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
“This is the starting point of dance: something -- the music, the steps, your partner -- holds you but you also have… — Lavinia Greenlaw Copy Share Image
“The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because… — William Safire Copy Share Image
All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as… — Harvey Penick Copy Share Image
How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“As they kissed, he could feel a tension loosening in him, a tension that had been knotted for so long he’d come… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
In desire, there must be some small amount of tension. And that tension comes with the unknown, the unpredictable. You can close… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
