Intensity Quotes

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.

The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.

I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of a perfunctory conversation, and someone will say, 'Tell us what you really think.' Or 'Maybe you should switch to decaf.

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

I am professional. Hardworking. Committed. Loyal. Also sentimental. But I had changed a little over the years. There was a bit of a heaviness to my soul because of the intensity of my job.

I wanted to become one of the best guards in the NBA. In order to accomplish that, I had to increase the intensity of my workouts.

There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.

I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.

You can run,” Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, “but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.

I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.

I don't know why it is, but I do like dancing in the extreme situations. I like that noise, I like that intensity. For some reason, it's what I respond to in terms of my taste and of my instincts.

The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.

When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.

Be reckless in your intensities.

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

Quebec's financial situation is serious. In terms of intensity, we're close to matching 1982 and 1997. We won't do the same things this time, but the problems we face today are about as pressing.

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

Pain is the fuel of passion - it energizes us with an intensity to change that we don't normally possess.

...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.

Too much intensity can be a bad thing.

The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

Corina Bartra is a very intriguing singer. On Son Zumbon ... the music utilizes tricky rhythms, the leader's haunting voice, and plenty of short solos. There is no lack on intensity in this program.

Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself...the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity.

You double your intensity with skill.

Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.

A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

the intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write.

There is no Space or TimeOnly intensity, And tame thingsHave no immensity

There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

You can discover your calling through the eyes of others

You need focus and concentration to be effective in life

The amount of value produced at a certain period depends on the level of focus used to attain it

To regain your lost years, you must make sure that any activity targeted at attaining your goal must be done with the qualities of intensity, speed and focus

Always take an inventory of your life

Time wasters are life wasters

Purposefully dedicating time into developing yourself is one of the keys to being effective in life