Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving? — Andrea Dworkin 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
No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
Yoga reduced my stress and bodily tension. It allowed me to bring my body back into balance, to emerge from my fertility… — Brenda Strong 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
I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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,… — Dennis Weaver Copy Share Image
Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the… — Tae Yun Kim Copy Share Image
The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player. — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? — Jerry Seinfeld 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
These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The same applies to the music and film industries. Until the heads of the labels start wanting to make money rather than… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension. — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
There is something about dance that is actually a great tension. There is something that is incredibly freeing about dancing for dancers… — George Nolfi Copy Share Image
Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community. — George Will Copy Share Image
