Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Tension, stress, bullshit, whichever you prefer to call it. It is a demon with many names.” — S.S. Michaels Copy Share Image
Tension is a lock which leads to two doors: Success and Depression. Now it's up to you which path will you take… — TheSaintsays Copy Share Image
Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“Some desires do not arrive violently. They settle quietly into the body until they begin speaking with your own voice.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
3 NICE THOUGHTS.. Kill tension before tension kills you.. Reach you goal before goal Kicks you.. Live life before life leaves you... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Creative tension is constructive. Its purpose is to bring out the very best in management so that senior executives can generate the… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
“He knew that he was caught up in one of those stretches of time when for anything to happen normally would be… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When Gimme Shelter was recorded, early '69 or something, it was a time of war and tension, so that's reflected in this… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Why is so much sex needed? Because you are tense, sex becomes a release. Your tensions are released through it - you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She'd stutter all the reasons why she shouldn't, shaking her head adamantly. But her body..her body would grow hot with excitement. She'd… — S.L. Jennings 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… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I think frustration unfortunately, reflects a real breakdown in the political parties themselves, which is fascinating because our constitution did not anticipate… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art last spring and spent time with David Alfaro Siqueiros's painting, 'Echo of a Scream (1937).'… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
“That tension creates the internal stress that drives the anxiety when we are putting in the hours, but end up having nothing… — Nina Harrington Copy Share Image
When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
“PHYSICS to me.. umm well it's like ENERGY, spreading in all DIMENSION of mind which tends to the TENSION, which FORCES the… — A.Z black Copy Share Image
“He thought the suit was changing his life. What it really wanted was his obedience.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t the violence that trapped him. It was the feeling that he had finally become someone worth noticing.” — Valon G Copy Share Image
Speaking seriously, Russia does not want to aggravate relations with anyone. We don't want any tensions. We want a good, friendly partnership… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go. — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.' — James Wan Copy Share Image
Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run. — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
