Tension Quotes

678 Tension quotes by 537 unique authors

Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don't pay so much attention to the words. In love’s country, language doesn't have its place.… — Shams Tabrizi
Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic… — Jessica Helfand
Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write… — Donald Margulies
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
Meditation is meeting eternity in the present moment. It is resolving every problem as it comes. It is resolving every tension as it creeps in.… — Vimala Thakar
Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge is never ending… — Unknown Author
Theatre remains the only thing I understand. It is in the community of theatre that I have my being. In spite of jealousies and fears,… — Robert Helpmann
When you have no intention then you have no tension! Be flexible. — Mooji
Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it… — Mort Walker
You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress. — J. Paul Getty
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. — Leon Kass
You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with any rigid formula… — Amit Ray
Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one… — Judith Stone
I am not afraid of the word tension. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greater the tension, the greater is the potential. — Carl Jung
Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension. — Russell M. Nelson
Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension,… — Pal Benko
Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like lean,… — Brad Alan Lewis
My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the… — Moshe Feldenkrais
From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a… — Jules Verne
The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe. — Paulo Coelho
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative… — Paul Brunton
By 2040, the Sahara will be moving into Europe and Berlin will be as hot as Baghdad. Atlanta will end up a kudzu jungle. Phoenix… — James Lovelock

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