Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility.

Public Servant

John Ortberg

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

American Clergyman

Marilyn Monroe

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

American Actress

Margo Georgiadis

From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or opportunity from multiple angles; help you balance the tug of the short-term with important long-term priorities; and ask the tough questions you need to know to reach the best solution.

American Businesswoman

Kate Spade

I think the details and the quality are so important that it has to have an emotional tug. Even if it's the simplest shoe, it has to have something that says, 'Oh, I have to have you.

American Designer

Jodie Foster

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Nikki Sixx

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

American Musician

Justin Bieber

Now that I'm on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone's trying to tug at me and take my spot.

Canadian Sculptor

George S. Patton

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

American General

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Indicates an abrupt action rather than a gentle pull.

Sudden Motion

Often used to describe attempts at gaining someone's attention or persuading them.

Subtle Persuasion

Used to describe a physical action to notify someone silently.

Requesting Attention

Implies using strength or force in the action of pulling.

Physical Effort

Can describe a non-physical struggle, such as a difficult decision.

Metaphorical Use

Often related to games or situations where two sides compete.

Competitive Scenarios

Refers to a specialized boat, indicating its purpose and capability.

Specific Vessel

Conveys the power required to move other vessels.

Associated with Strength

Used in maritime settings and understood among professionals in this field.

Nautical Context

Implies that moving the object is not easy and requires exertion.

Shows Difficulty

The action of tugging implies continuous effort or repeated pulls.

Illustrates Persistence

 And you have a billion people just tugged into all these different directions. Well, imagine an entire design renaissance that tried to orchestrate the exact and most empowering time-well-spent way for those timelines to happen. And that would involve two one would be protecting against the timelines that we don't want to be experiencing,

How a handful of tech...

 It's blasting out radiation. This is the last place in the universe you would expect to find a planet, but they had very methodically looked at this pulsar, and they detected the gravitational tug of this planet as it orbited the pulsar. It looked really good. The first planet orbiting another star had been found

The secret to scientific...

 Here's another example, where Eric is tugging on the robot as it goes up the stairs. And believe me, getting it to do what it's supposed to do in those circumstances is a real challenge, but the result is something that's going to generalize and make robots much more autonomous than they would be otherwise.

Meet Spot, the robot dog...

 So the way we infer the presence of dark matter -- we can't see it -- but there's an unmistakable tug, due to gravity. We now can look out, we see this sea of galaxies in a universe that's expanding. What I do myself is to measure the expansion of the universe,

This new telescope might...

 Deciding when to write is sometimes a tug of war. Margaret's dual identity strategy isn't as strange as it sounds. Psychologists have long observed that we have two selves, the want self and the should self. Your want self runs on emotions.

The real reason you...

 an even deeper gill arch evolved into a secondary set of jaws. Unlike oral jaws connected by a bone joint, these pharyngeal jaws were suspended in muscle, offering them a wide range of motion to turn, tug, and tear on food.

What you can do with an...

 fast they grow and we need to know much more about it we're gonna protect them in the long run I'd never seen a blue shot before so I was really looking forward to that tug on the line but the one thing I remember

Tagging Blue Sharks PIPE...

 and you never wrote the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves of your your stories, memories, visions and songs -- your truth, your version of things -- in your own voice. That's really all you have to offer us,

12 truths I learned from...

 massaging my stomach to help the uterus contract gently tugging at my umbilical cord finally the Midwife calls for backup my baby is taken from my arms and I'm lying there feeling vulnerable and

Caring for maternal...

 the beetle attacks and grabs the lake the tussle turns into a tug of war neither giving an inch and then the daddy longlegs reveals a nifty life-saving mechanism a quick-release

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