Best 261 quotes in «intense quotes» category

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

I actually started meditating more when I moved to New York, which has helped me a lot. The energy is so much more magnified and intense here. In Sweden, there are forests and lakes nearby and you can chill. But here, I had to actively meditate to stay sane.

How intense could you be? Can you be intense enough to pick this 500Lbs off the floor? Are you intense enough to pick this 700Lbs up? Squat down to the floor and stand back up? So what if your eyes are bloodshot! So what if your bones feel like snapping! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO!

I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.

I am more at peace than I've ever known myself to be. My connectedness to the world is more intense. I am more attentive to the humanity around me.

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

I don't really cook meat. I eat a bit of seafood but I'm not really into meat and the idea of cooking it is pretty intense.

I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'.

I am hated by many, especially comrade Pang Dehuai, his hatred is so intense that he wished me dead. My policy with Pang Dehuai is such: You don't touch me, I don't touch you; You touch me, I touch you. Even though we were once like brothers, it doesn't change a thing.

If those guys with better genes trained as hard and intense as me, I wouldn`t stand a chance!

If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.

I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

I found Celebrity Gangster intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.

I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense.

I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.

I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts.

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

I just love to draw. It's very intense for me. The day will just go by like the snap of a finger. A lot of times I'll draw or paint late into the night. When I am really concentrating, I kind of lose track of what I am doing.

I'm not intense at all. I'm always relaxed.

Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

It also will come through natural forces, as a lot of intense storms also will be brewing. There's a lot for us to get caught up into if we choose, but they are warning us not to get caught up in it. It's simply a mirror of the times that we don't necessarily have to respond to and react to from within.

I see fans all the time. They're always very complimentary and they're always very eager to talk and to share their experiences or get a selfie. They're really, really loyal. And intense.

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

It is a remarkable thing that some of the most optimistic and enthusiastic people you will meet are those who have been through intense suffering.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

It's not a lot, but we have 8,000 people following us. I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else. It's a true honor, and it might sound intense, but it's one of the most rewarding parts of the songwriting experience.