Quotes about Tension

Tension is the great integrity. Votes: 6

Music is like a huge release of tension. Votes: 6

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. Votes: 6

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. Votes: 6

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice. Votes: 6

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. Votes: 6

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. Votes: 6

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve. Votes: 5

To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you. Votes: 5

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. Votes: 4

A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety. Votes: 4

You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension. Votes: 4

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. Votes: 4

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. Votes: 4

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. Votes: 4

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. Votes: 4

Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being. Votes: 4

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. Votes: 4

Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are. Votes: 4

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. Votes: 4

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. Votes: 4

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next. Votes: 4

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. Votes: 4

Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person. Votes: 4

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. Votes: 4

Tension of opposites. Votes: 3

Tension is wonderful for making people laugh. Votes: 3

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living. Votes: 3

Narrative Tension is primarily about witholding information. Votes: 3

Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun. Votes: 3

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it. Votes: 3

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness Votes: 3

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed. Votes: 3

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man. Votes: 3

Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense. Votes: 3

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.' Votes: 3

The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational. Votes: 3

Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give? Votes: 3

Tension pulled my eyes open when her fingers traced a trail down my neck. Sensation blossomed, and I threw my head back and sucked in the air. Her arm slipped around my waist, catching me before I fell. Votes: 3

Tension translates to your guests. They'll have a much better time having chili and baked potatoes than they would if you did roast duck with a wild cherry sauce and then had to lie down and cry for a while. Votes: 3

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump. Votes: 2

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters. Votes: 2

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing. Votes: 2

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount. Votes: 2

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe. Votes: 2

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up. Votes: 2

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested. Votes: 2

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. Votes: 2

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. Votes: 2

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul. Votes: 2

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. Votes: 2

I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in, so that the white racist person can become entertaining to a viewer. Votes: 2

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing. Votes: 2

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music. Votes: 2

It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems. Votes: 2

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out. Votes: 2

The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger. Votes: 2

I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary. Votes: 2

The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me. Votes: 2

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses. Votes: 2

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry Votes: 0

The 'enemy' in golf is tension. Votes: 0

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information, Votes: 0

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension Votes: 0

Let the music diffuse all the tension. Votes: 0

Let the music defuse all the tension. Votes: 0

I am not afraid of the word tension. Votes: 0

One should never create tension between one's footwear. Votes: 0

You have to create tension between reality and aspiration Votes: 0

To get along with me, don't increase my tension. Votes: 0

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential. Votes: 0

It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension. Votes: 0

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change. Votes: 0

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes. Votes: 0

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension. Votes: 0

The best way to offset tension is with physical activity. Votes: 0

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show. Votes: 0

Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry. Votes: 0

In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension. Votes: 0

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. Votes: 0

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person. Votes: 0

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face. Votes: 0

Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too. Votes: 0

Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving. Votes: 0

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south. Votes: 0

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. Votes: 0

When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible. Votes: 0

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it. Votes: 0

I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home. Votes: 0

Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension. Votes: 0

I have to constantly negotiate the tension between past neighborhood and present neighborhood. Votes: 0

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. Votes: 0

A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving. Votes: 0

What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month? Votes: 0

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth Votes: 0

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido. Votes: 0

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. Votes: 0

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros. Votes: 0

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. Votes: 0

The one arm one leg pushup is an exercise in total body tension Votes: 0

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving. Votes: 0

There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter. Votes: 0

God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not. Votes: 0

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make. Votes: 0

I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent. Votes: 0

If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving? Votes: 0

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty. Votes: 0

Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension. Votes: 0

Please don't tell me to relax, it's only my tension that's holding me together. Votes: 0

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil. Votes: 0

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity. Votes: 0

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. Votes: 0

One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good Votes: 0

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience Votes: 0

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form. Votes: 0

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer. Votes: 0

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience. Votes: 0

If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension. Votes: 0

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals. Votes: 0

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount. Votes: 0

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace. Votes: 0

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations. Votes: 0

The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation. Votes: 0

When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released. Votes: 0

In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope. Votes: 0

... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension. Votes: 0

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication. Votes: 0

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group. Votes: 0

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally. Votes: 0

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason. Votes: 0

Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe. Votes: 0

McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension. Votes: 0

My environment can give me relief from sin and tension, only the Lord can cure it. Votes: 0

Conservatism as an "ism" is always going to be somewhat in tension with a political party. Votes: 0

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. Votes: 0

I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. Votes: 0

When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet. Votes: 0

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot. Votes: 0

Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him Votes: 0

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it. Votes: 0

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty. Votes: 0

There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension. Votes: 0

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama. Votes: 0

God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions. Votes: 0

There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes. Votes: 0

Laughter is a release of tension. When influencing, make the other person laugh; you'll gain rapport instantly. Votes: 0

Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss Votes: 0

The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release. Votes: 0

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. Votes: 0

This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self. Votes: 0

What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation. Votes: 0

There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre. Votes: 0

Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension. Votes: 0

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie. Votes: 0

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide. Votes: 0

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities. Votes: 0

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide. Votes: 0

Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension. Votes: 0

It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight. Votes: 0

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me. Votes: 0

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science. Votes: 0

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. Votes: 0

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together. Votes: 0

Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? Votes: 0

One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger. Votes: 0

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important. Votes: 0

But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension. Votes: 0

I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn't worth attention are the things that attracts attention Votes: 0

The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election. Votes: 0

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work. Votes: 0

There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers. Votes: 0

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing. Votes: 0

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. Votes: 0

I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. Votes: 0

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money. Votes: 0

I was between them, and as the tension sparked, I felt like a small rodent trapped between mastodons. Votes: 0

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh. Votes: 0

Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm. Votes: 0

So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do. Votes: 0

Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other. Votes: 0

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. Votes: 0

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish. Votes: 0

Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension. Votes: 0

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning. Votes: 0

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other. Votes: 0

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player. Votes: 0

The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne. Votes: 0

Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest. Votes: 0

Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension. Votes: 0

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits. Votes: 0

The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension. Votes: 0

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension. Votes: 0

Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world. Votes: 0

To follow Jesus doesn't remove us from the stuff of life. It is not resolution. It is tension and journey. Votes: 0

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension. Votes: 0

If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead. Votes: 0

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74) Votes: 0

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension. Votes: 0

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community. Votes: 0

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully. Votes: 0

...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him. Votes: 0

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life. Votes: 0

Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension. Votes: 0

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead. Votes: 0

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony. Votes: 0

People loose tension when they run. The feeling of self respect will almost always increase. You accept yourself a little more. Votes: 0

Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything. Votes: 0

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. Votes: 0

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress. Votes: 0

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't. Votes: 0

A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything. Votes: 0

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. Votes: 0

It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show. Votes: 0

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension. Votes: 0

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine. Votes: 0

The ability to do perform Reiki comes from an internal freedom. The power to be free from stress, tension, and anger. Votes: 0

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. Votes: 0

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom. Votes: 0

I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke. Votes: 0

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. Votes: 0

Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time. Votes: 0

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues. Votes: 0

Interactive management requires open, honest, and tension-free relationships with others. You do this by negotiating relationships and sharing, so that everybody wins. Votes: 0

Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty. Votes: 0

Im not the voice of reason; Im more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke. Votes: 0

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. Votes: 0

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over. Votes: 0

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers? Votes: 0

Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident. Votes: 0

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is. Votes: 0

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go. Votes: 0

I meditate each day. Going within alleviates tension and stress, and allows me to hear what the Universe wants me to know. Votes: 0

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. Votes: 0

We are creatures whose behavior cannot be simply explained as a striving for survival and happiness, for release of tension and contentment. Votes: 0

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension. Votes: 0

The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips. Votes: 0

The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that. Votes: 0

there's too much tension in the world"¦ what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can't make peace. Votes: 0

There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension. Votes: 0

Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide. Votes: 0

I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides. Votes: 0

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach. Votes: 0

A lot of shows peak after a series and never get it back, but 'Breaking Bad' keeps the tension up all the time. Votes: 0

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. Votes: 0

No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed. Votes: 0

The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand. Votes: 0

Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world. Votes: 0

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. Votes: 0

When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama. Votes: 0

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension. Votes: 0

If you want to get an audience quiet, just say "abortion" and everybody shuts up and the tension in the room is spectacular. Votes: 0

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. Votes: 0

Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room... can even bring things to a climax. Votes: 0

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. Votes: 0

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension". Votes: 0

Lord Jesus, bring comfort to all those who mourn and peace of heart to those under pressure and tension, in Jesus Christ's name Votes: 0

It wasn't even a fight, really. We didn't shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives. Votes: 0

Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world. Votes: 0

By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension . Votes: 0

A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly. Votes: 0

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in. Votes: 0

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work. Votes: 0

Side Effects Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on the weekend. Woody Allen Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. Votes: 0

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters Votes: 0

I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy. Votes: 0

Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be. Votes: 0

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite. Votes: 0

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom. Votes: 0

For 'Boxers and Saints', the tension between Eastern and Western ways of thinking was very personal for me, and I needed to control every aspect. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Cezanne produced precarious little worlds that almost, almost, almost lose their balance but somehow hold themselves together, creating tension, beauty and danger all at once. Votes: 0

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive Votes: 0

A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement. Votes: 0

There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension. Votes: 0

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. Votes: 0

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation. Votes: 0

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following. Votes: 0

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work. Votes: 0

I like awkward moments. They are full of tension and suspense. Anything's possible or, at the very least, they are the source of some electric sizzle. Votes: 0

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He leaned close to whisper in her ear, "Is there any other tension I can relieve for you, cher? I am willing and most certainly able. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Oil prices jumped to well over $100 a barrel, and analysts say it's due to tension in the Middle East. So, luckily, it's just a temporary thing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president. Votes: 0

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural. Votes: 0

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative. Votes: 0

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring. Votes: 0

Phantom' follows some of the best submarine cold-war films made. There's just so much tension, I can't even describe it - you have to see it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. Votes: 0

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age. Votes: 0

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence. Votes: 0

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites; hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do you agree that when theres tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose. Votes: 0

The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity. Votes: 0

Sexual tension is like a ruthless pigeon. Feed it once and it will follow you around forever. It never tires or goes on vacation. It just lingers. Votes: 0

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension. Votes: 0

The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension. Votes: 0

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm. Votes: 0

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism. Votes: 0

In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong. Votes: 0

I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me. Votes: 0

Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common. Votes: 0

Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar. Votes: 0

Doing something positive will help turn your mood around. When you smile, your body relaxes. When you experience human touch and interaction, it eases tension in your body. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there. Votes: 0

The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus' people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening. Votes: 0

There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think I was just too young to even understand what was going on. When I was still living in South Africa, there was still so much racial tension. Votes: 0

There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension. Votes: 0

In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension. Votes: 0

The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces. Votes: 0

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is. Votes: 0

The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote. Votes: 0

It won't be the same for me," I whispered, half to myself. "You won't let me be like that. We'll live in Antarctica." Edward snorted, breaking the tension. "Penguins. Lovely. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to be great dramatic and comedic tension. Votes: 0

Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not? Votes: 0

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't like to watch a movie where it's just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release. Votes: 0

In 1983, all of us had U.S. passports, but because there was so much tension between America and the U.S.S.R., we were announced as a Canadian group. Votes: 0

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, Votes: 0

In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony. Votes: 0

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are all green fruits and green vegetables. Votes: 0

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. Votes: 0

Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience. Votes: 0

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension. Votes: 0

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not. Votes: 0

If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle. Votes: 0

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy. Votes: 0

There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself. Votes: 0

In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension. Votes: 0

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest. Votes: 0

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies. Votes: 0

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. Votes: 0

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life. Votes: 0

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence. Votes: 0

I've never seen a professor of religion on television before, and I thought that was fascinating. The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation. Votes: 0

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. Votes: 0

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business. Votes: 0

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business. Votes: 0

His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back. Votes: 0

I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way"¦ what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve "“ tension beneath calm. Votes: 0

You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me and suspect that I have probably never been totally relaxed." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it. Votes: 0

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object. Votes: 0

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment. Votes: 0

Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about. Votes: 0

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye. Votes: 0

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born? Votes: 0

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break. Votes: 0

No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude. Votes: 0

At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it. Votes: 0

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now. Votes: 0

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension. Votes: 0

Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create. Votes: 0

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that. Votes: 0

The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens. Votes: 0

Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle. Votes: 0

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live. Votes: 0

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice. Votes: 0

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice. Votes: 0

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent. Votes: 0

They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us. Votes: 0

With the first out breath, you are releasing worries, plans, mental tensions. With the second out breath, you are releasing physical tightness and tension. With the third out breath, you are releasing difficult emotions. Votes: 0

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension. Votes: 0

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness. Votes: 0

I don't find the wave model very productive, because I think it kind of serves to fan the flames of generational tension, or make it seem like there's more generational tension than there actually is. Votes: 0

When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was very close to the Soviet Union. There was definitely a lot of tension. Votes: 0

Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration. Votes: 0

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension. Votes: 0

L'amoureux qui n'oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce' s, fatigue et tension de me moire (tel Werther). The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther). Votes: 0

There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do. Votes: 0

The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any kind of tension, I'm restricted to playing the most fundamental kinds of things. Votes: 0

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society. Votes: 0