Best 175 quotes in «intensity quotes» category

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.

I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.

I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.

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

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

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.

Intensity builds immensity

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

Length is usually intensity. Not time.

I'm an obsessive person. I like 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.