71 Quotes on Tension

• Amidst the usually-ringing symphonies of existence, the gentleness of whispered hopes shimmers like dappled sunlight - soft yet striking with unexpected clarity.

  Author: Mia Holloway

• If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

  Author: Dennis Weaver

• You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

  Author: Murray Walker

• Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

  Author: Herschel Walker

• I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

  Author: Joanna Trollope

• The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that.

  Author: Sean Thomas

• I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

  Author: Twyla Tharp

• Music is like a huge release of tension.

  Author: James Taylor

• As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.

  Author: Madeleine Stowe

• Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.

  Author: Madeleine Stowe

• So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.

  Author: Latrell Sprewell

• I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

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

  Author: Georg Simmel

• In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.

  Author: Charles Sherrington

• I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

  Author: Zack Rocha

• I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.

  Author: Bridget Riley

• People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

  Author: Henry Reed

• The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.

  Author: Leonard Orr

• So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.

  Author: Donald Norman

• One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

  Author: Byron Nelson

• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

  Author: Benito Mussolini

• With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

  Author: Robert Morgan

• I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

  Author: H. Mencken

• I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

  Author: Sarah McLachlan

• I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

  Author: Patrick Marber

• I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

  Author: Norman Mailer

• As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

  Author: Naguib Mahfouz

• I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

  Author: Roy Lichtenstein

• The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

  Author: Arthur Levitt

• All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

  Author: Barry Levinson

• Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

  Author: John Leonard

• If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.

  Author: Chuck Klosterman

• Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

  Author: Allen Klein

• We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• In diplomacy, silence is not the absence of conversation; it is the quiet firmness that shapes allegiance, raw as tension, revealing deeper wants amidst the unvoiced.

  Author: Sophia Arrington

• There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

  Author: Leon Kass

• And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

  Author: Michael Jann

• But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.

  Author: Jacky Ickx

• The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

  Author: Terrence Howard

• 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.

  Author: Mike Honda

• When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

  Author: Marilyn Hacker

• The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

  Author: Marilyn Hacker

• The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

  Author: Marilyn Hacker

• Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

  Author: David Guterson

• In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

  Author: Paul Greengrass

• The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

  Author: John Gardner

• Tension is the great integrity.

  Author: R. Fuller

• It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show.

  Author: Jonathan Frid

• It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

  Author: Glenn Frey

• You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.

  Author: Mike Figgis

• Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.

  Author: Peter Farrelly

• Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

  Author: Harold Evans

• Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

  Author: Brian Eno

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

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

  Author: Henry Ellis

• You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in.

  Author: David Ellis

• In shadows of company, absence dances sharply, rendering the familiar oddly significant--fatiuge refarding accustomed waves washing over shores unexpectedly filled during still moments.

  Author: Seren Rayne

• I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

  Author: Andrew Denton

• The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

  Author: Angela Davis

• Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

  Author: Rob Corddry

• To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

  Author: Ty Cobb

• I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

  Author: John Carre

• If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

  Author: George Burns

• But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.

  Author: Andrew Bradley

• Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.

  Author: Kathryn Bigelow

• The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

  Author: Annette Bening

• There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

  Author: Gregory Bateson

• There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

  Author: Bruce Babbitt

• There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

  Author: Darren Aronofsky

• In each brushstroke and wordcraft, time recedes, not swallowed but embraced, an interplay of seconds manageably crafted into vibrance.

  Author: Lorian Marken

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