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Tag Name "Tension" (506)

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Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.
Rex Brandt
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Tension is the great integrity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
Criss Jami
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Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
Annabelle Selldorf
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Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness
Oswald Spengler
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Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.
Bear McCreary
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
William James
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Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.
Agnes Meyer Driscoll
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Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild cherry sauce and then had to lie down and cry for a while.
Nigella Lawson
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Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide.
Kenneth Rogoff
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... our diagnosis and treatment of of tension myositis syndrome represent yet another instance of what is possible when the power of the mind is mobilized for healing the body. It's not magic it is as scientific as the appropriate use of antibiotics, for science encompasses everything that is true in nature.
John E. Sarno
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Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of theatre that I have my being. In spite of jealousies and fears, emotional conflicts and human tensions in spite of the penalty of success and the dread of failure in spite of tears and feverish gaiety this is the only life I know. It is the life I love.
Robert Helpmann
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I could have kissed you months ago, but it wouldn’t have meant anything. I wished for you to see me. And want me. So…did you mean it?” “Yes,” I said, and some unnamed tension inside me eased. “I see you, Tod.
Rachel Vincent
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I am sure that it wouldn’t be in the long-term interests of China which would continue to depend on these African resources for a very long time to see the emergence of any sense of hostility animosity, tension, da da da, between itself and the African continent.
Thabo Mbeki
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At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it.
Sergio Chejfec
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I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
Kevin Spacey
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Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
John Green
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Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.
Robert Venturi
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The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
Radhanath Swami
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I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
Thomas A. Edison
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Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.
Shahzia Sikander
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Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.
Konstantin Chernenko
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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.
John le Carre
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You live during the match, and you have strong emotions, but you don't want to get too overexcited. My body's totally flat now. I cannot move anymore. I'm totally exhausted, just because of the tension out there.
Roger Federer
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