Tension Quotes
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.
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.
There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth
Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".
It really helps if you've got something like cycling, walking, running or swimming that can let your body release all that tension and keep your muscles fit.
Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.
Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediately.
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.
Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.
If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.
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.
When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.
In tension you cannot perceive; in laxity you cannot perceive. Only if you are intense and relaxed, you perceive everything just the way it is.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.
I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it - can be painted.
Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.
Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.
Interactive management requires open, honest, and tension-free relationships with others. You do this by negotiating relationships and sharing, so that everybody wins.
I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
I think it's important that we run that tension between the way things are, in terms of the way we're governed, and the way we sort of become complacent.
I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again.
If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.
In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.
by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.
Im not the voice of reason; Im more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.
Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.
I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.
There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.
God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions.
The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.
There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.
We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father . . . it got more interesting.