Best 116 quotes in «tension quotes» category

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Hollywood doesn't trust me, and we don't really mix. When a movie has stars, everything in the budget goes up, even the catering costs. I just don't like the process of having Suits all around, so I prefer casting unknowns. It adds another level of tension - you don't quite know what to expect from them. My movies don't even need that much money.

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

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 am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a picnic by the Thames. I am aware of the tension and it saddens me.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

Friendship is a tension. It makes delicate demands.

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

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

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.

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

How we present ourselves at any given time is dependent on the situation. We constantly balance the tension of high aspirations with the pragmatism of realistic expectations. The key is to represent ourselves in such a way that we can fulfill the expectations we create.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season.

I have never been sad because my losses are my profits

I tried to speak, to tell Kit I wasn't dead. No sound came out. But I managed to lift one arm a few inches and execute a tiny wave. Hello, still alive. In a fuck ton of pain, but not dead.

Marry hope, divorce tension!

Maybe being surrounded by rockstars has me looking for a regular guy.” Liz locked gazes with Kieran, challenge flashing in her eyes. The poor bartender was getting dragged into battles way outside of his pay grade.