Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When you are achieving in a system that is at odds with who you are—one that too often values style over substance,… — Valerie Young Copy Share Image
As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Clint Eastwood enables and allows things to happen. You walk on some sets and it's like walking into an emergency room. It's… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
In order to reprogram the subconscious mind, you need to relax the body. Release the tension. Let the emotions go. Get to… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
A good joke provides tension, and then, release of that tension. You build the tension by saying things that are controversial. The… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“He threw her a crooked grin as he removed his shirt completely, revealing a torso that seemed too perfectly muscular and finely… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a… — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
“There are prisons made of iron. There are prisons made of velvet. Lucian’s house had no bars, only warmth, taste, money, and… — Valon G Copy Share Image
Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
“I start suddenly and lift my head. Bethke too, I see, is sitting up. Even Tjaden is on the alert. The year-old… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Be very careful that you do not unconsciously assume that nervous tension is power. This is vital. Watch yourself the next time… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
You've got to stay in the weight room because those type of exercises relieve stress and tension. It's just like a stretch,… — Jabari Parker Copy Share Image
The snowy owl has eyes that look just like mine, especially when it widens them. And while I stand there, staring at… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs,… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
“Are you seriously going to pretend nothing is going on here?” I cry. He glares at me. “There’s nothing going on. I… — Bella Jewel Copy Share Image
Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for… — Osho Copy Share Image
People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the… — Allen Steck Copy Share Image
When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
Woven through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to… — Will Barnet Copy Share Image
I think there is too much wrong with the world to ever get too relaxed and happy. The more natural state, and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical,… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Nondiscrimination is a great American principle. It's a core American principle, as is religious freedom. When you have two important American principles… — Charles Haynes Copy Share Image
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusion and fear. Burning away the hurt… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
My breathing begins to slow. The tension in my muscles starts to relax. Then, a click in the headphones. A slow breath… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
