Quotes About Tension

Once I see my mother's smiling face, I forget all the shooting pressures and tensions. I am the happiest person at that moment.

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.

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.

Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

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

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

'River' is all about tension and release. It's about intimacy and solace. It's about staring someone in the face and not backing down.

Each project you do demands a different diet in a way. Because there's so much tension in 'Betrayal,' so much holding of breath and emotion, I can't get too happy in my food choices or I can't get alert enough.

When I get ready for a high-profile event, it's really about sleep and making sure I'm eating something healthy, and then it's always important to stretch to stay limber. No matter what, you want to feel as loose as possible, because it's easy to get full of excitement or tension with all that's going on.

I have problems with the trigeminal nerves, which may be triggered by stress and tension.

Our bodies hold so much tension and resentment and sadness, so if we don't move it out of the body, we stay stuck in those negative patterns.

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

Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that's actually a good thing and it makes sense.

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know.

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

If you've developed an ideology that what's good for you personally also happens to be good for everyone else, that's quite wonderful because there's no moral tension.

I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'