#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. ↗

— Henry Reed

#another #comfortable #dream #dreams #feel

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest

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

— Donald Norman

#create #does #good #good teacher #just

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. ↗

— Gerald Jampolsky

#asks #comparison #expansion #extension #fear

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money. ↗

— Michael Patrick Jann

#documentary #energy #good #good way #money

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#called #confusion #entirely #first #good

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples. ↗

— John Searle

#examples #extensions #find #i #ice

So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera. ↗

— John Sexton

#back #became #being #camera #explore

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#because #everyone #feel #feels #going

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#be nice #child #children #day #extension