The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving.
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.
I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creat...
Yoga talks about cat-pose, dog-pose, camel-pose, monkey-pose, bird-pose etc. Why there are so many animal poses? Animals release their emotions and tensions by movements based on their body sensations. But our amygdala in the brain is carrying the �...
Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.
Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.
From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
When there is no tension between the inner beingness and that which is being expressed, there is grace.
'Phantom' follows some of the best submarine cold-war films made. There's just so much tension, I can't even describe it - you have to see it.
Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything.
