Tension Between Quotes

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Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole… — Martin Nowak
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. — Raymond Carver
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. — Leonard Bernstein
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief… — Brian Evenson
The way you create any outcome in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the same time, though, you must… — David Emerald Womeldorff
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are… — Rollo May
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to… — Jacques Derrida
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity. — Hayden Carruth
Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go. — Dick Morris
A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty. — Russell Kirk
Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so… — Roy Lichtenstein
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
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
My understanding â€“ of course, Iâ€™m not a philosopher or a scientist â€“ of an aspect of Goetheâ€™s theory of color is that he felt… — Alex Webb
"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
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because… — Will Self
That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too… — Li-Young Lee
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. — Ellen Goodman
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
Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one… — Judith Stone

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