Creative Tension Quotes

#1. The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

Tim Daly

#2. From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.

Stanley Hauerwas

#3. I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother's journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn't that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present.

Terry Tempest Williams

#4. You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.

Pearl Zhu

#5. The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.

Peter Senge

#6. Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

Peter M. Senge

#7. The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.

Bob Newhart

#8. Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.

David Brooks

#9. It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#10. What would that be like? To never have an identity of your own? No wonder they call him mad.

A.G. Howard

#11. Great women aren't born great, they become great.

Sabrina Newby

#12. I am not afraid of the word tension.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.

Darren Star

#14. I've been in one Derby, and this is my third Belmont. But I've never thought of the fact that I haven't won a Triple Crown race. I'm not like that. I always look at the sunshine of things.

Julie Krone

#15. Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

Agnes Meyer Driscoll

#16. This is hospitality at its core. This is the beat of my heart: to experience grace and nourishment, and to offer it, one in each hand, to every person I meet - grace and nourishment. You can rest. You don't have to starve.

Shauna Niequist

#17. I think people are at their most creative when they're relaxed. I don't believe that tension is good for creativity. Everyone is relaxed and therefore can feel able to express their own individual creativity and lots of ideas come in. It's a joy like that.

Joe Wright

#18. The ability to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new idea that contains elements of the opposing ideas but is superior to each.

Roger Martin

#19. I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Norman Mailer

#20. My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock.

Selma Blair

#21. The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Coming from Ruff Ryders, there would be, like, 30 guys in the studio at once, and then me, trying to do my own thing.

Eve

#23. Actually, there are," she'd said. "Want to see who can make the most inappropriate picture out of
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse?"
So they'd done that. She hadn't realized how ... creative a bunch of teen boys could get. But at
least it had cut through some of their tension.

Brigid Kemmerer

#24. You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Tony Blair

#25. I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?

Jeff Lindsay

#26. I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.

Larry David