Intense Quotes - Page 34

• Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Acting, Energy

  John Ruskin (1860). “The Stones of Venice...”, p.5

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• The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.

  William Carlos Williams

  Writing, Vision, Facts

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher John MacGowan (1986). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939”, p.312, New Directions Publishing

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• Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Giving, Curiosity, Attention

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• A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Boredom, Anxiety, Typical

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• This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

  Charles Gounod

  Music, Ocean, Serenity

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• I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.

  Andie MacDowell

  Sleep, Being Thankful, Forever

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• I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Lonely, Art, New York

  Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman (1976). “Alfred Stieglitz”

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• I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous.

  Lincoln Hall

  Sports, Climbing, Judgement

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• War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Order, Awful

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• Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.

  John Muir

  Individuality, Degrees, Atoms

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.603, Library of America

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• We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Going Away, Enlightenment

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• A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Real, Thinking

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• If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Spiritual, Yoga

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• Be intense, be ready to go, but just enjoy it.

  Brock Larson

  Mma, Enjoy, Ready

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• The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exercise, Thinking, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Harvard University Press

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• By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.

  Joe Rogan

  Stress, Mma, Peaceful

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• When you have harmony in the different areas of your life, with your mind, body, and spirit, you're just so much stronger, especially in really intense stressful situations.

  Frank Shamrock

  Mma, Stressful Situations, Mind

  "Frank Shamrock on Fight Master, Episode 4: 'We realized after six or seven hours, no one was going to give up'". Interview with Shaun Al-Shatt, www.mmafighting.com. July 18, 2013.

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• I'm a pretty intense person. And I don't know if intense is fun. I put myself through the wringer. That's just how I work.

  El-P

  Fun, Persons, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Fashion, Thinking, Months

  Source: collider.com

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• Obsession is such a naughty word - it's a very intense word. I'm obsessed with music, always have been. I can't lie. And I'm obviously obsessed with my child, my child's life and the little things that he does.

  Kate Hudson

  Children, Lying, Naughty

  "Fool's Gold - Kate Hudson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When you go from movie to movie, it's like going from family to family. You work with people for really intense hours on really long days and a bond happens. So even when a movie is terrible, you love it.

  Matthew Lillard

  Long, People, Hours

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story.

  Sharlto Copley

  Fun, Real, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• That's what a powerful story does. It creates a more intense experience of life for you to watch. That's what a good film does for me, anyway. That process, I enjoy. It just makes for entertaining characters and entertaining films.

  Sharlto Copley

  Powerful, Character, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

  Oliver Jeffers

  Months, Strange, Painting

  "Locating Loss with Oliver Jeffers". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.

  Burton Silverman

  Artist, Together, Subjective

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