#tension

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#been #between #first #getting #journalism

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#existence #extension #human #human psyche #individual

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do. ↗

— John Guare

#body #dealt #extensions #eyes #head

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. ↗

— David Guterson

#i #me #melancholy #need #produce

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anybody #between #doing #else #exterior

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creates #interests #kind #language #me

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#how #line #look #obliged #particular

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#connected #emotionally #extension #guitar #i

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#extraordinary #mankind #must #pretensions #race

Joan's a dream to play - she's not always prancing around the office. There's that side to it, which is really fun, but there's nitty-gritty. She's what makes the workplace so fun - in a workplace that can be so dark and so much tension, Joan gives some levity. And the wonderful thing is she still has these darker moments among the fabulous highs. ↗

— Christina Hendricks

#among #around #dark #darker #dream