Tension Quotes · Page 9

All the attraction, the tension. Don't you see baby, this is perfection?

— Shakira

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Christine Caine

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

— Anonymous

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

— Peter Shepherd

“Our mind is continuously overflooded with ideas, emotions, sentiments. By and by relax, be empty.”

— Osho

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

— J. Paul Getty

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

— Nadine Gordimer

Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away…

— David Lynch

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If…

— Barry Levinson

3 nice thoughts : Kill the tension before the tension kills you Reach your goal before the goal kicks you LIVE LIFE…

— Anonymous

If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right…

— Connie Zweig

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in…

— Henry Reed

The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in…

— Lawrence Joseph

Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The…

— Lenny Abrahamson

Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in…

— Anonymous

I think that we live in a remarkably networked world. The problem with that, of course, is that tensions can travel in…

— Eboo Patel

I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies.…

— Cecile de France

Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules…

— Johan Huizinga

The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of…

— Rebecca West

They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But…

— David Lynch

The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and…

— Nelson Mandela

We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China. China's been doing relatively…

— Richard Glover

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Jean Vanier

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

— James C. Collins

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

— Chinese Proverb

Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension.

— John F. Kennedy

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

— Alain Ducasse

“The suit gave him youth, strength, and hunger. It never promised he would remain himself.”

— Valon G

“I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn't worth attention are the things that attracts attention”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Narrative Tension is primarily about witholding information.”

— Ian McEwan

Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.

— Peter Rollins

What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

— Doris Lessing

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

— Denis Waitley

“Never forget to keep tension here,” he says in a quiet voice.”

— Veronica Roth

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

— Georg Simmel

There's a tension in Washington that was undeniable. I could write my name in the air there.

— Barry Trotz

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.

— Andy Stanley

“To be sure, man’s search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium.”

— Viktor E. Frankl