Quotes About Tension

I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

There are people who criticise me, and that's normal because of the way I am on the pitch. I get angry, I get tense.

Musical chairs or Russian roulette? Sometimes there's as much tense drama in the casting of a Hollywood movie as there is in the finished product.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.

A lot of times when I'm confident and relaxed on the court, I'm going to be a pretty tough out. But when I'm not so confident and not so relaxed, I tense up and my balls fall short and everything. It just sort of unravels.

It's not as if I never used to get under pressure. That is nonsense. It's just that my looks gave an appearance, and people didn't think I was tense.

In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set.

I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.

Musicians get tense at big gigs. Some you can't talk to before the concert; some you can't talk to afterwards; some need the same size dressing rooms as others; others need bigger; some have comments to make on others' musicianship or how a particular song ought to be played.

The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

I find it hard to be joyful on screen because I'm so tense.

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

In German, if a situation is tense, you say 'unter strom' - under electricity.

That's what a lot of people say, especially in college, it looked like I'm lackadaisical out there, like I'm not really paying attention. If I'm always tense, I'm going to be overthinking the game. I try to just go with the flow.

Maybe if they didnt tense up, always need to be competitive, always need to be in charge, always need to be the one at the top, men might find that there are benefits from releasing the grip of power.

I had worked with many actors who were angry at times and often found them to be tense.

Tension is the great integrity.

Constant tension should be applied to the last five reps of every working set, meaning, do the first 5-6 reps normal tempo, and the last few reps should be held for at least two seconds at the peak of the contraction. This allows your muscles to have more time under tension, and you work different muscle fibers.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

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