Best 116 quotes in «tension quotes» category

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

I meditate each day. Going within alleviates tension and stress, and allows me to hear what the Universe wants me to know.

Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.

It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living.

Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

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

Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension.

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

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

There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.

There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is such a rush.

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

A cocked .38 doesn't feel the same as an unprimed revolver. The frame tightens differently, the trigger is on a hair and this tension is communicated to you and the people around you.

As you become aware of life, you will begin to see the root cause to all your actions and reactions. Then you will realize that you are not angry with the child because he made a mistake, but because you get pleasure out of being angry. The mistake was only a excuse.

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.

Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.

Beware of smile, for it is a double edged sword; it cuts the helmet of tension from others head and backfires the peace to yours.

Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishes us in every sense.

But it feels like we are sitting on a tight bench of a bus with a stranger between us, one that neither of us is willing to admit to or mention, and so we find ourselves talking around him and through him and sneaking glances when the other one isn't looking. How am I supposed to think about Anna Fitzgerald when I'm wondering whether Julia has ever woken up in someone's arms and for just a moment, before the sleep cleared from her mind, thought maybe it was me?

Enoch could respond with nothing more than a simple gesture in the orbs' direction. His brain was frozen. He could not think or speak, but the voiceless answer roused Fallon instantly. When he followed Enoch's gaze, a silent curse passed over his lips and then, "We're in big trouble.

Don't take tension, just smoke Benson.

Do you know what I see in you now? The usual aura. A steady golden yellow, healthy and strong, with spikes of purple here and there. But when I do this. . . .” He rested a hand on my hip, and my whole body tensed up. That hand moved around my hip, slipping under my shirt to rest on the small of my back. My skin burned where he touched me, and the places that were untouched longed for that heat. “See?” he said. He was in the throes of spirit now, though with me at the same time. “Well, I guess you can’t. But when I touch you, your aura . . . it smolders. The colors deepen, it burns more intensely, the purple increases. Why? Why, Sydney?” He used that hand on me to pull me closer. “Why do you react that way if I don’t mean anything to you?” There was a desperation in his voice, and it was legitimate.

Happiness can be a confusing concept for Christians. On one hand, if we serve a good God who promises us a full and abundant life, shouldn't we be happy? On the other hand, any careful reading of the life and way of Jesus reveals a life open to suffering and self-denial. The very message of the gospel confronts the shortcuts humans take to happiness and calls those who follow Christ to a new way of life. This apparent tension has commonly become a weapon in the shouting matches between gay-affirming voices and traditional voices. The affirming voices call for the unimpeded opportunity for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) people to experience self-fulfillment through sexual intimacy, relationship, marriage, equal status, and so on. The traditional voices point to a path of self-denial and suffering as the way to live out God's standards. For a gay Christian, when happiness and suffering are pitted against one another, this dilemma can disintegrate into a no-win situation and a source of shame.

Fixed mindset worries in the nest and the growth mindset dances on the edge.

Friendship is a tension. It makes delicate demands.

Growth ought to simplify life. Right? Wrong. The more truth I assimilate, the more I am aware of what I should be and do. You know what this produces? Tension. God-imposed tension! The growing, obedient Christian will always live with this kind of pressure.

He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.

He had a hungry look in his eyes and it frightened her.

He did not touch her but enjoyed the particular intimate pain of the tension between them.

He knew that he was caught up in one of those stretches of time when for anything to happen normally would be abnormal. The dawn was too tense and highly charged for any common happening to survive.

How can I shut down If you don't open up??

Hope you enjoy the show then, darling.” Heat flickered in his amber eyes, and his lowered voice made the implication quite clear. A shiver rolled down her spine, but as always she didn’t betray those impulses.

I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn't worth attention are the things that attracts attention