Intensity Quotes · Page 9

“Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.”

— Remy de Gourmont

The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.

— Bob Fosse

“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

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

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

— Virginia Woolf

Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything…

— Nicholas Sparks

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty…

— John Keats

The methods and technologies of how to experience that which is beyond the physical is what is known as the science of…

— Jaggi Vasudev

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality…

— Alexis Carrel

When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I…

— Josef Albers

In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal,…

— Paul Klee

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It…

— Richard Dawkins

There is a curious law of art...that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy,…

— Northrop Frye

We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

It (the slider) just rolls off of your index finger and begins it's spin which will take it down and across the…

— Steve Carlton

I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust -…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity…

— Oscar Wilde

What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well…

— Wendy Kaminer

No.” He wouldn’t lie about that. Not to her. And not because she’d rip him to pieces when she discovered the truth.…

— Gena Showalter

As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can…

— Norman Maclean

"The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more…

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Roger McDonald

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

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

— Raymond Chandler

Doing readings is so gratifying that it makes any physical intensity worth it for me.

— Tyler Henry

But size isn't everything - effort and intensity is, especially in the fourth quarter.

— Mark Schlereth

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

— Ranata Suzuki

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

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

— Nathanael West

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

— Ashley Montagu

My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

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

— Mike McCurry

For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.

— Al Leiter