Quotes About Tension

We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.

Stress is the spice of life.

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet

This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance.

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

The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

Economic storm is coming and the stress levels are going to increase because of financial worries.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

When you're working with film and you hear that mag starting to roll and you know that there's thousands of dollars just spinning around, it's another stress element, which I don't enjoy at all.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite.

Stressed by any other name is fear.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

How singular, murmured Maximillian; your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary -- What strange feelings are aroused by politics.