Best 175 quotes in «intensity quotes» category

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms.

Intensity builds immensity

In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

It was body rush After body rush, intensity building. Touch me there.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?

It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

I wanted to become one of the best guards in the NBA. In order to accomplish that, I had to increase the intensity of my workouts.

Length is usually intensity. Not time.

Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.

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

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

Music can really affect the intensity of a workout. I love having it during cardio especially.

Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

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

Protected by a no-fly zone, surrounded by protesters, Trump Tower is buzzing with intensity. The president-elect's family, loyalist advisers and wannabes all jockeying for position.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.

Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash.

Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

She tried to swallow, to take a breath, but her eyes met his, and there was nothing but aching intensity in his gaze. And she was drawn in, swept away.

So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.

Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

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

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

The bow always strung ... will not do.

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.