Best 116 quotes in «tension quotes» category

A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.

Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.

A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety.

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

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

By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension .

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Don't take tension, just smoke Benson.

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.

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?