Tension Quotes

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

I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

Let the music defuse all the tension.

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

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

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.

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

The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.

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

Tension is the great integrity.

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

You have to create tension between reality and aspiration

Music is like a huge release of tension.

You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.

When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible.

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

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

Please don't tell me to relax, it's only my tension that's holding me together.

As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth.

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

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

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

The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

As a person, I do not like tension in squabbles; I also do not like being on tenterhooks. When I am in love, it's the same. Especially with regards to love, I want very much to protect it.

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

The best way to offset tension is with physical activity.

Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.

Tension of opposites.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

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.

One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good

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

Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.

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

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.