Tension Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Let the music diffuse all the tension.

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.

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

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

By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?

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

Tension is the great integrity.

You have to create tension between reality and aspiration

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

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

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

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

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.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

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.

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

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.

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.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

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.

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

When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible.

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

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

There's more tension in golf than in boxing because golfers bring it on themselves. It's silly really because it's not as if the golf ball is going to jump up and belt you on the whiskers, is it?

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

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

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

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.

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.