Pastoral Resources

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

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.

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

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 another, and every stage releases tension.

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.