#tension

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#elements #extension #nature #neither #nor

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#always #art #art form #base #based

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#any #destructive #find #i #kind

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. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#couple #dramatic #elegant #emotion #every

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#clean #fun #good #humor #little

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#being #consciousness #electronic #extension #form

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

— H. L. Mencken

#attain #cow #enjoys #feeling #function

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. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#brings #courage #energies #highest #human

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#enthusiasm #extension #natural #natural extension #our

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! ↗