33 Tension Quotes

Tension is the father of every solution. Tension grows from needs and the wants of change. Change changes tension to power. This is a collection of 33 quotes and sayings on tension.

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential. - Carl Jung

Tension is the mirror of our past. - Saab

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. - Chinese Proverb

Tension is the cornerstone of any good story. - Eric Nylund

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man. - Criss Jami

There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes. - Sean Brady

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living. - Agnes Meyer Driscoll

Tension is the great integrity. - Richard Buckminster Fuller

Tension demands release. Unusual tension demands release that can only be described as appalling. - Garth Ennis

You have to create tension between reality and aspiration. - Sumantra Ghoshal

Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense. - Bear McCreary

The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation. - Tim Daly

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. - Sol Stein

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing. - Byron Nelson

The best way to offset tension is with physical activity. - Bonnie Prudden

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it. - Rex Brandt

Tension is wonderful for making people laugh. - John Cleese

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face. - Lauren Hutton

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

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress. - J. Paul Getty

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed. - William James

Tension is making the reader ask a question, and then not answering it. - Rachel Aaron

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. - Joshua Loth Liebman

Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order. - Walter Benjamin

The expense of energy on what you cannot control, heightens stress, tension and diverts one’s efforts away from what can be controlled. - RJ Intindola

Love can be simply the absence of tension. - Will Advise

Whenever you feel tension mounting up, just smile: you will break the force of tension. - Dada J. P. Vaswani

Friendship is a tension. It makes delicate demands. - Sophocle

Marry hope, divorce tension! - Md. Ziaul Haque

Silence is its own kind of tension. - Erika Swyler

The world's only lessons are tension and fear — relax into yourself. - Bryant McGill

The freer a society, the tenser its tensions. - Cole Huffman

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