Best 116 quotes in «tension quotes» category

We all know what’s coming. The winds are picking up, spiralling closer and bringing with it a great wave of destruction…none of us can hide…no matter which side you choose, you’ll be dragged into the line of fire and who’s to say, my friend, which of us will come out alive?

We’re prone to totally deny something that is abused, because it’s easier than handling it. I’ve noticed that truth is very rarely found in the extremes, in the black and white - you’ll usually find it right in the middle, in the gray. It’s just much harder to find that way. We’re lazy; however, and we’ll take the ten step program or the list of rules before we do the dirty, difficult work of prayer, meditation and study that comes with living in the tension. It’s always easier to default to an extreme than it is to find the buried, messy truth that is found in living in the already and the not yet - in the tension.

When we are aware about our body’s sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress through slow movements.

When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there’s no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension.

Whether we know it or choose to admit it, we are either an Encourager or a Discourager. We each make a choice as to which type we will be… every day. Discouragers bring “stresspools.” I call any of those places that add unnecessary stress and aggravation “stresspools.” They are just as stinky and rotten as cesspools, but “stresspools” wreak of tension, strain, anxiety, worry, hassle, pressure, and emotional trauma.

You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep.

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

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

What are you going to do, Luca?' I clenched my fists at my sides. 'Pull a gun on me?' 'If that's what it takes.' 'How brave!' I exploded. We were so close to one another now. 'You can't use your words. but you're more than happy to use your gun.' 'I'm not going to be responsible for ruining your innocence!' I tilted my face towards him to show I wasn't afraid, or as innocent as he clearly thought. 'Go ahead,' I whispered. 'Shatter it.' We were nose to nose. 'It almost worked last time, when you told me about my dad.' 'I don't care,' he replied resolutely. 'I'm not punching Bambi in the face.

Whenever you feel tension mounting up, just smile: you will break the force of tension.

You know, stealing someone’s kill is bad form,” he complained, cutting through the quiet tension.

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

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

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

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

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

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 .

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension.

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.