Intensity Quotes

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?

Looking into blood doping. I think it will allow me to write jokes with greater intensity, and for a longer period of time.

Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.

Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

Sometimes something as simple as going for a 20-minute jog on any given day is important. Keeps your body moving and legs from getting stiffened up from doing high-intensity workouts during the week.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

Within each piece, I create an intriguing balance between jewelry and the body, and an intensity which draws others to it.

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day.

Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith

I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.

In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.

Introverts are generally more sensitive to low-intensity stimuli - they are mentally alerted to inputs that extroverts may miss.

It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.

One intense hour is worth a dreamy day.

Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.

Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.

In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.

By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.

Making a movie is, for me, like painting. I just enjoy the care that goes into every brushstroke and the choice of every color. I enjoy the intensity of it.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

Without complexity, there's no intensity.

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.

A yoga session is harder than a football practice easily for me. Probably in some ways just as intense, not from a physical standpoint of hitting ,but from a game, the intensity is the same.

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

There's something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can't take care of him or herself. And then watching that little person bloom into adolescence.

What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.

Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.

The new guys bring energy, intensity and emotion. The last couple games, they showed what they can bring to the team.

I want to bring that childlike approach every night - just go out there and have fun. I want to play like a kid, for fun but with intensity. Play to win.

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.