Intensity Quotes · Page 9

When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the…

— Wassily Kandinsky

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

— Lawrence Taylor

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Bob Proctor

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

— Lisa Yuskavage

When you become a mega-icon overnight, there's no way to keep that intensity continually going.

— Tiffany Darwish

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

— Paul Cezanne

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts…

— Anonymous

I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's…

— Lincoln Hall

Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love…

— Chris Crutcher

Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre…

— Henry Rollins

I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together,…

— Jules Verne

“That's all he was doing. Mistaking that intensity for something that didn't translate outside of the bedroom. That couldn't, probably, because something…

— Lisa Henry

The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level…

— Eckhart Tolle

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured…

— Josephine Hart

“A third principal states that the more intense the interaction between a student and its models, the more effective the training. Intensity…

— Irene M. Pepperberg

It is not that fathers are better or worse, not that they are more loved or criticized, but rather that they are…

— Ellen Goodman

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we…

— Virginia Woolf

[The first] week [of the year] is great because my special is coming out but it's also my least favorite week because…

— Jen Kirkman

I get to keep you,” he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?” I asked, reaching…

— Abbi Glines

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of…

— Santha Rama Rau

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy…

— William Butler Yeats

One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes…

— Dorian Yates

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you…

— Michael Snow

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

— Om Puri

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

— Indira Varma

“Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?”

— Ashly Lorenzana

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

— Dustin Hoffman

“I still think of you every day. But I’m trying not to let it hurt me with the same intensity that it…

— Ranata Suzuki

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

— Nathanael West

Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.

— George L. Carlson

We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.

— Roger Andrew Taylor

Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.

— Roger McDonald

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

“Perfection lies in intensity, and what is most intense cannot be endured long.”

— Walter Kaufmann

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

— Zakk Wylde

I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.

— Keith Crown

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

— Ed Ayres

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

— Rudolf Nureyev