Tension Quotes
In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.
The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.
We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.
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.
I still think there's some tension . But it's pretty clear that, when the president made his statements as a candidate, he's following through with those as a president.
Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience
Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.
Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.
If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step.
To follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey.
Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room... can even bring things to a climax.
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.
But every human path leads on to God; He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, And strong as holy wishes, drawing us With delicate tension upward to Himself.
My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all. But I think people throughout the area were just in a constant state of tension - I mean, adults.
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.
Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide.
Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.
I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
I meditate each day. Going within alleviates tension and stress, and allows me to hear what the Universe wants me to know.
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.
I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.
Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension.
We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
People loose tension when they run. The feeling of self respect will almost always increase. You accept yourself a little more.
Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.
Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.
It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.
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.
All sizes of film sets have the same level of excitement and friction and tension and then vast sections of boredom that define the process, so I love it all.
Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write it, then we’ll talk about it.
Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.
The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.
I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.
Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty.