Best 175 quotes in «intensity quotes» category

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.

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?

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

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

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

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

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

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

Length is usually intensity. Not time.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

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

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

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

The bow always strung ... will not do.

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

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

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.

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.

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.

There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.

There's something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can't take care of him or herself. And then watching that little person bloom into adolescence.

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.

The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

Women's orgasms will quadruple in intensity if she's in a beautiful, dimly lit room versus a brightly lit, uncomfortable room.

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

You double your intensity with skill.

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

All that really matters is to feel alive, if only for a single moment – to feel in Intense Sensation that our existence is not an endless repetition of sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.

Always have a list of what you want to achieve in life