Quotes About Tension

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

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

Why could nothing with Kate be simple? Why couldn't Jim ever just come by to tell me that he had bowled a perfect game or benched a personal best. Maybe finally asked that weird tiger girl out.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?

A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.

If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.

But the rubber bubble was about to burst.

Trago em mim o inconciliável e é este o meu motor.

Strife is food that feeds evil spirits.

The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives.

The peace to come gives the present no peace.

From the look of things, in five minutes every building facing the square would be locked up tighter than a Romulan clam.

Certainly the psychological work done by wit and humor is heavily overdetermined. It may control, or salute, the sudden release of tension. It may express anxiety or alleviate it; bravado joking is a whistling past the graveyard of physical fear or social uneasiness. Humor may serve as a salutary act of regression — an agreeable holiday from frowning responsibility, a temporary retreat from earnestness that circumvents the punitive superego humans carry about with themselves.

By the spring of 1918 when the German divisions had transferred from the Eastern Front to the Western Front, they were able to deploy some 192 divisions opposing only 156 Allied divisions. Numerically the situation had never been more promising for the Germans, but the American forces were gathering and casting a long shadow across German plans.

The words of history are also the words of war.

In Chapter 8, I argued that personal vision, by itself, is not the key to releasing the energy of the creative process. The key is "creative tension," the tension between vision and reality. The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly.

Mastery of creative tension transforms the way one views "failure." Failure is, simply, a shortfall, evidence of the gap between vision and current reality. Failure is an opportunity for learning—about inaccurate pictures of current reality, about strategies that didn't work as expected, about the clarity of the vision. Failures are not about our unworthiness or powerlessness.

For example,when a conflict surfaces in a dialogue people are likely to realize that there is a tension, but the tension arises, literally, from our thoughts. People will say, "It is our thoughts and the way we hold on to them that are in conflict, not us.

scuffle, police in riot

Browne stared at Banks and his eyes narrowed, turned

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.