Best 116 quotes in «tension quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

Friendship is a tension. It makes delicate demands.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.