Quotes of: Tension Keyword

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

Naomi Wolf

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

Mustafa Akyol

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.

Clayton Christensen

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

Hattie McDaniel

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

John Avlon

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

Glenn Frey

People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.

Heraclitus

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Georg Simmel

Paths that lead to the crossroads of life; otherwise known as "transition." Transition is the tension present between struggle and grace.

Deborah Brodie

Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.

John Gardiner

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

Annette Bening

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

Alain Ducasse

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

Arthur Levitt

The only tension that gets my attention, is when I stick a fork too close to my silver filling.

Life

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

Zack de la Rocha

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Norman Mailer

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Benito Mussolini

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

Annabelle Selldorf

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Henry Moore

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

H. L. Mencken

Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.

Patricia Cornwell