Tension famous quotes

Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.
-- Alfred Bester

#Anger #Said #Tension

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
-- Andrew Denton

#Nervous #Tension #Persons

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.
-- Bobby Jones

#Golf #Enemy #Tension

The best way to offset tension is with physical activity.
-- Bonnie Prudden

#Way #Tension #Physical Activity

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

#Christian #Life And Death #Tension

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience
-- Bridget Riley

#Used #Tension

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.
-- Carl Jung

#Tension

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
-- Ellen Goodman

#Firsts #Journalism #Tension

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

#Letting Go #Leaving #Tension

You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.
-- F. Matthias Alexander

#Spiritual #Tension #Translate

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
-- Hattie McDaniel

#Fun #Littles #Tension

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.
-- J. Paul Getty

#Stress #Tension #Thrive

Music is like a huge release of tension.
-- James Taylor

#Release #Music Is #Tension

Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.
-- Jeffery Taylor

#Karma #Thread #Tension

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
-- John Michael Higgins

#Drama #Comedy #Tension

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,
-- John Oliver

#Earth #Should #Tension

Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too.
-- Lee Child

#Smart #Tension #Humans

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
-- Mahmoud Darwish

#Israel #Identity #Tension

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
-- Manuel Puig

#Tasks #Language #Tension

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Growth #Type #Tension

I am not afraid of the word tension.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Tension #Not Afraid

Tension of opposites.
-- Mitch Albom

#Opposites #Tension

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Tension #Standing

Let the music diffuse all the tension.
-- Nas

#Music #Tension

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness
-- Oswald Spengler

#Transition #Cosmic #Tension

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

#Release #Dissonance #Tension

One should never create tension between one's footwear.
-- Rachel Caine

#Should #Tension #Footwear

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

#Art #Anticipation #Tension

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
-- Robert Adams

#Photographer #Tension

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.
-- Shirley Manson

#Kind #Tension #Productive

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
-- Stephen Covey

#Emotion #Tension #Disharmony

You have to create tension between reality and aspiration
-- Sumantra Ghoshal

#Reality #Aspiration #Tension

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.
-- Ty Cobb

#Increase #Tension

Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.
-- Franck Khalfoun

#Creating #Scary #Tension

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.
-- St. Lucia

#Thinking #Young #Tension

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.
-- Agnes Meyer Driscoll

#Stress #Creative #Tension

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.
-- Robert Venturi

#Quality #Circumstances #Tension

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

#Laughing #Release #Tension

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.
-- Joo Won

#Want #Protect #Tension