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

Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.
Peter Farrelly

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.
Henry Reed

People like her because she's like a breath of fresh air. Because in the fifth book it gets so dark and Harry's always cross and then every time Luna comes in all the tension goes and she makes you laugh because she's so funny and really honest. I don't know how much I'm like her, there are some similarities but I'm more determined than her.
Evanna Lynch

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

Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding.
Kathryn Bigelow

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

So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.
Latrell Sprewell

So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
Donald Norman

Tension is the great integrity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.
Leonard Orr

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.
Mike Honda

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.
Terrence Howard

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Henry David Thoreau

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

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.
Marilyn Hacker

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Henry Ellis

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Marilyn Hacker

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
Anatole Broyard

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