Tension Quotes - Page 3

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

Tension of opposites.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

If you sit there and you know that rule #1 is just that everything you do is honest and is just a natural and instinctual extension of yourself, then there you go.

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

Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.

As a person, I do not like tension in squabbles; I also do not like being on tenterhooks. When I am in love, it's the same. Especially with regards to love, I want very much to protect it.

What is the son but an extension of the father?

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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

Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

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.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is such a rush.

One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.