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«Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.»
«Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.»
«In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right»
Author: Ellen Goodman (Journalist) | About: Journalism | Keywords: journalism, tension
«Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.»
«Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.»
Author: Joshua Loth Liebman | About: Maturity | Keywords: accepts, maturity, tension
«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 essential to the work of art or poem.»
«I lived [in Irvine], but I never felt totally accepted as one of these rich white suburban kids. I wasn't economically deprived like so many of my Chicano brothers and sisters, but I felt the tension and the rejection--and that's when I started getting into hip-hop, started break-dancing. `The Message,' `Rapper's Delight,' Run-DMC...that was what was happening around that time.»
«Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.»
«If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.»
«I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.»

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