Intense Quotes - Page 7

• Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Careers, People, Use

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My standards are so high because of who I serve but it doesn't put any water on my fire for winning. I'm still an intense person. You can be intense and saved. You can compete and still be saved. You can challenge a guy and still be saved. There was nothing soft about me as a player and there isn't anything soft about me as a coach. You want to be a man of integrity and you want the players to know that you care about them. Whether or not they still like you or not is a whole other deal.

  Avery Johnson

  Integrity, Player, Men

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Reflection, Two, Lightning

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• Remember that an artist's life is an intense search for truth. This search takes many forms. Everyone of these forms demands its own disciplines. I learned and adapted to my search. I expect nothing from you. Question the truth of anything you confront. How does it apply to yourself and the trail you are pursuing?

  Brice Marden

  Artist, Discipline, Doe

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• But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Ideas, Giving

  Doris May Lessing (1989). “The Doris Lessing Reader”, Jonathan Cape

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• If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?

  Henry James

  Ambition, Artist, Essence

  Henry James (1984). “Literary Criticism: French writers. Other European writers. The prefaces to the New York edition”, p.414, Library of America

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• When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

  Howard Shore

  Film, Consuming, Particular

  Source: collider.com

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• The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Technology, Roots

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• If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.

  Robin Williams

  War, World, Would Be

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• At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I'm so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn't like new music so much.

  Lenny Kravitz

  People, Sound, Arrogant

  "New Again: Lenny Kravitz". Interview with Carly Wolkoff, Rick Rubin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 20, 2012.

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• 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.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Optimistic, People, Suffering

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2012). “Looking Up When Life Gets You Down”, p.61, Baker Books

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• With sex scenes and intense scenes, in general, a lot of it is preparation before the scenes happen, so that you don't have to worry about it on set.

  Vinessa Shaw

  Sex, Worry, Preparation

  Source: collider.com

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• New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.

  Ezra Miller

  School, Kids, Concentration Of Wealth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What makes games so exciting is that's a whole other- there's all sorts of other considerations on what music is supposed to achieve and what you're attempting to support, it's not uncommon to think of your music and to think of the way your orchestra plays for something like Jack and Daxter where you start with- you know because it has to change tempo and intensity as the action gets more intense.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Thinking, Games, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Not harder than it should be, no. We're about the business, we're about the work. It's all about the work, always. We have fun and laugh and there're days that are more intense than others, but we're there to make it better. He's always going to try and make it better, I'm always going to try and make it better. So you accept anything, you accept whatever it takes to get it up on the screen and make it worthy.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Fun, Laughing, Trying

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks THE EQUALIZER, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes from the 80s Series, and More on Set". Group interview, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.

  Harold B. Lee

  Beautiful, Jesus, Confusion

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• We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

  Phil Taylor

  Baseball, Cheer, Dirty

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• The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Shining, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• 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'.

  Ed Robertson

  Thinking, Trying, Chords

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• The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

  Johan Cruijff

  Player, Games, Giving

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• I think it's important when you're acting to be as relaxed as possible even if you're doing something intense. You're basically in a state of dynamic relaxation.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, Relaxation, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• My existence is such that "I" do not really exist. At the end of understanding so much I understand that I know nothing. I suffer for being surrounded by intense suffering and yet I'm deeply suspicious if first of all there is indeed any consciousness except me. I strive to find the artist who might have fathered this great universal art but feel myself to be too feeble to accomplish this seemingly unattainable mission. Yet I have every respect for life, and it is this sheer respect that makes me live.

  Kedar Joshi

  Art, Understanding, Suffering

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• All things radiate forth an intense aliveness.

  David Hawkins

  All Things

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• We are involved in an intense battle. It is a battle between right and wrong, between truth and error, between the design of the Almighty on the one hand and that of Lucifer on the other. For that reason, we desperately need moral men and women who stand on principle, to be involved in the political process. Otherwise, we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Selfish, Men, Errors

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• I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.

  Robert Sirico

  Rain, Animal, Lakes

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