Best Tension Sayings
678 Tension quotes by 537 unique authors
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Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.
— Raymond Carver
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To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.
— Sol Stein
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He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious…
— Max Euwe
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The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes…
— Richard Reti
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The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both…
— Paul Halmos
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Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to…
— Rajneesh
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Karma is the tension of the thread in the human tapestry.
— Jeffery Taylor
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Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker?…
— Dale Carnegie
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Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.
— John Cleese
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Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents…
— Anne McCaffrey
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I am very intense. I can't help it. That's the way I am. You can't be in this business without being intense. The pressure and…
— Irene Cara
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Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing…
— Unknown Author
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People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust and love that…
— Joss Whedon
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A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.
— Leonard Bernstein
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The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting…
— Bruce Lee
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I'd take out a joint and light it. First, just faking it. Then I started lighting live joints, passing them around to the band, you…
— Barbra Streisand
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Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.
— Hattie McDaniel
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Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil Rights Act of…
— Ron Paul
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The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, But if…
— Roger Ebert
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The…
— Caity Lotz
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Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.
— Peter Rollins
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I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief…
— Brian Evenson
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Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel…
— Sol Stein
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The way you create any outcome in your life is to hold the vision of your deepest desires. At the same time, though, you must…
— David Emerald Womeldorff
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I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would…
— Samuel Johnson
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