Tension Quotes
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Tension Quotes & Sayings
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When you are trying to sell a product like therapeutic transformation, there can be no ambiguity, no sense of anxiety, tension, or struggle.
— Michael S. Horton
When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.
— Jacques Wirtz
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.
— Lance Armstrong
A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.
— Denis Waitley
Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.
— Sri Chinmoy
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.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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.
— Donna Lynn Hope
The dynamic tension between daring and serving creates the conditions for superior performance.
— Cheryl A. Bachelder
The genius of evolution lies in the dynamic tension between optimism and pessimism continually correcting each other.
— Martin E.P. Seligman
If you have high expectations you're going to get resentments and all kinds of tension.
— Anthony Hopkins
Take it easy when you are busy! It shall never be easy but, take it easy!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.
— Edward Abbey
Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him
— Mike Erre
You know, stealing someone's kill is bad form," he complained, cutting through the quiet tension.
— Katherine McIntyre
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
— D.W. Winnicott
. . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.
— Peter R. Pouncey
He would have given anything for a tension-breaker-maybe, if he prayed hard enough, the school would catch on fire or something.
— Christian M. Frank
Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.
— Russell M. Nelson
The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips.
— Richelle Mead
When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.
— Richard Jenkins
A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
— Russell Kirk
The center of our story is the tension between the yearning to create a home and the urge to get out of it. I
— Gail Collins
There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.
— Charlaine Harris
Obsessed with the desire to be happy I lost my life. I moved with the tension of a bow and arrow in an unreality of desires.
— Clarice Lispector
The Scriptures were written with built-in tension between texts and its resultant theology.
— James MacDonald
Powerful Leaders passionately dream big and are intentional with the emotional tension that may try to block it; what's blocking your dream?
— Michael Walker
Silence is its own kind of tension.
— Erika Swyler
Never forget to keep tension here, he says in a quiet voice.
— Veronica Roth
They don't see that her tension and perfection are the only things holding her together.
— Laura Nowlin
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".
— Moses Finley
Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.
— Kenneth Rogoff
The tension between public and private science is powerful.
— Wil S. Hylton
Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.
— Dick Morris
The music had the ability to conjure images in my head and help me drown out the tension and noise I was trying to avoid at my house.
— Duff McKagan
The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
— Arthur Levitt
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.
— Bruce Springsteen
Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.
— Raphael Soyer
I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
— Murray Walker
A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.
— Jean Vanier
The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
— Terence McKenna
Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?
— James Hilton
There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.
— George Meyer
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.
— Zack De La Rocha
We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.
— Robert Harbison
You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.
— F. Matthias Alexander
I want to be wooed. I want to be courted. I want to be seduced. I want the magical tension that is there at the start of a relationship.
— Andrew Critchley
Let's go, Marcus, I have a lot of pent-up tension I need to get rid of," I said. I looked over my shoulder to where Victor was standing.
— Claire Contreras
In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.
— Ronald Reagan
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.
— Edwidge Danticat
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.
— Jaggi Vasudev
Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room ... can even bring things to a climax.
— Demetri Martin
I could feel the tension radiate from my solar plexus and jangle along the nerve circuitry. It had nothing to do with the weather.
— Robert B. Parker
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.
— Eric Nylund
If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
— Leo Buscaglia
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.
— Virginia Woolf
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.
— Naguib Mahfouz
The Cause that caused a Fear need not appear again. There for not fear about Fear.
— Purushothaman Kollam
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.
— Terrence Howard
I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'
— Alexandre Aja
White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
— Stephen Sondheim
Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
— Patricia Cornwell
What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
— Pauline Kael
When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.
— Orhan Pamuk
I misread the romantic tension, Didn't I?
— Marissa Meyer
Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.
— Peter Shepherd
When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.
— Brian Boitano
She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.
— Elena Ferrante
The 'enemy' in golf is tension.
— Bobby Jones
I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
— Kevin Spacey
Love can be simply the absence of tension.
— Will Advise