Intently Quotes

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I have blocks of time where I'm working intently on something. — David Plotz
It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious… — Alexander Crummell
Good listening works magic... Listen intently intentionally! — Frank Bettger
The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches… — Haniel Long
As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that… — Dante Alighieri
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two… — Douglas Adams
She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would listen intently and then promise to make… — Nicholas Sparks
So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms,… — Michael Ondaatje
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion… — David Eddings
No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any… — Aldo Leopold
Is there anything on earth which would have meaning and would even change the course of events not only on earth, but in other worlds?â€… — Daniil Kharms
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions… — Charles Dickens
One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic… — Mary MacLane
The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice… — Cassandra Clare
Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years… — Mitch Albom
No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why do you want… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before… — Emily Bronte
That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring… — David Foster Wallace
Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered an occasional groan… — Steig Larsson
Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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