Tension Quotes

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

I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.

I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.

Let the music defuse all the tension.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.

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

By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension .

It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

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

If anyone accuses me of lying, I'll simply say I'm not lying, which is just an extension of the overall lying strategy.

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

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

You have to create tension between reality and aspiration

Tension is the great integrity.

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

Music is like a huge release of tension.

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

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.