Tension Quotes

Tension is the great integrity.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

John W. Gardner

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

Lauren Hutton

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.

Erich Fromm

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.

Barbara De Angelis

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

Leon Kass

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

Murray Walker

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Ellen Goodman

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

Prof. F. A. P. Aveling

Breathe in. Take a deep breath. Be aware of your body relaxing. Let out unwanted energy and tension.

Laurel Izard

Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension.

Sri Chinmoy

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

Robert Morgan

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

Publius Syrus

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation. All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free.

Barry Levinson
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