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When time, money, and results are on the line, it's easy for tension to build.
There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth
Please don't tell me to relax, it's only my tension that's holding me together.
Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness
I don't look for a fight or look for animosity or tension where it's not needed.
In my early England days, there was a bit of tension with captain Nasser Hussain.
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.
A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.
There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.
Diplomacy is essential if we are to find peaceful resolutions in times of tension.
I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.
Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.
With scale, there always becomes this tension of, how do you keep the start-up philosophy?
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
I don't show tension and nervousness, but I know how fast my heartbeat races before a race.
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'
There's a tension in Washington that was undeniable. I could write my name in the air there.
Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.
Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.
So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.
Any band that you have, any relationship in your life, is gonna come with moments of tension.
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show.
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.
There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.
As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.
Comedy always benefits from different points of view and even tension. It can never be satisfied.
I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.
We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.
In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.
And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.
It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'
Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.