Intensity Quotes · Page 15

Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

— Paul Tournier

I've learned my tricks. I know what I like. I do not wait around. I initiate. And I’m not all about frequency.…

— Halle Berry

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

— Steven Chu

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface…

— John Ruskin

The difference between the Premier League and the other leagues is the intensity of the games.

— Rafael Benitez

“I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.”

— Gillian Flynn

Love is like pancreatitis; it starts off slow, then builds in intensity until you become consumed and develop violent cramps.

— Dana Gould

A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different…

— Dan Gable

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me…

— Joan Miro

Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a…

— Frederick Lenz

I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers,…

— Marita Golden

The mystery of the Holy Night, which historically happened two thousand years ago, must be lived as a spiritual event in the…

— Pope John Paul II

I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a…

— Damien Chazelle

'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced…

— Jamie Cullum

...Be holy men and women! Do not forget that the fruits of the apostolate depend on the depth of the spiritual life,…

— Pope John Paul II

My uncle always said, ‘Hurry slowly.’ I guess [it means] have the intensity of love but don’t rush into it. Have the…

— Ed Sheeran

There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and…

— J. William Fulbright

The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree…

— Soren Kierkegaard

the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better,…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such…

— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here…

— Anson Dorrance

Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'…

— Alice Miller

You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as…

— Lucy Christopher

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and…

— Maya Angelou

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

— Alan Rickman

“Suddenly there was this intensity to everything we did and everything we said. Like my life had been itelicized.”

— Cora Carmack

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

— Emily Carr

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

— George Henry Lewes

The NBA is intense, but the NFL is a whole 'nother level of intensity and dramatic, game-changing plays.

— Paul Allen

As we gain experience with the Holy Ghost, we learn that the intensity with which we feel the Spirit's influence is not…

— David A. Bednar

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of…

— Herbert Read

When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that’s a sign you are close to your…

— Joel Osteen

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Parul Sehgal

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

— Arnold Bennett

My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.

— Roger Ailes

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him…

— Harry Segall

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

— Laura Marling

Women's orgasms will quadruple in intensity if she's in a beautiful, dimly lit room versus a brightly lit, uncomfortable room.

— Naomi Wolf