Best Tension Thoughts
678 Tension quotes by 537 unique authors
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Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always…
— Joseph Pilates
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The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception,…
— Anna Deavere Smith
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The best way to offset tension is with physical activity.
— Bonnie Prudden
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The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after…
— Leonard Orr
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Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. One way to break up…
— Byron Nelson
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Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent racism, the sexual…
— Eric Fischl
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Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all…
— Donna J. Haraway
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So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.
— Latrell Sprewell
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Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are…
— Tae Yun Kim
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Maberry is a master at writing scenes that surge and hum with tension. The pacing is relentless. He presses the accelerator to the floor and…
— S.G. Browne
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It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty…
— C.J. Sansom
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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, you know.
— Dennis Weaver
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The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable…
— Anatole Broyard
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The 'enemy' in golf is tension.
— Bobby Jones
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Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of…
— Tony Robbins
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In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you…
— Craig Newmark
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My understanding – of course, I’m not a philosopher or a scientist – of an aspect of Goethe’s theory of color is that he felt…
— Alex Webb
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The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But…
— Sugata Mitra
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"Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are and what you want…
— Rajneesh
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"The ego is created by the rift. When you are fighting, the ego comes in; when you are not fighting, the ego cannot come in.…
— Rajneesh
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A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served…
— Michael Pollan
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Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of…
— Curt Sachs
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Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that…
— Gautama Buddha
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A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest.
— Helen Steiner Rice
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