Intensity Quotes - Page 25

• every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Philosophy, Paris

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Birds Fall Down”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• One intense hour is worth a dreamy day.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Intense, Hours, Dreamy

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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  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.

  Jimmy Page

  Spontaneity, Moments, Mood

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

  Le Corbusier

  Creating, Creative, Moments

  Le Corbusier (1964). “When the cathedrals were white”

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• Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.

  Anthony Holden

  Love, Running, Baseball

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• Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.

  Octavio Paz

  Love Is, Doors, Space

  Octavio Paz (1995). “The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism”, Harcourt

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• Hate does not present many choices; if hate is your solution, you are fairly certain to hate all phemonena with equal joy and intensity, without troubling to drag into prominence any one feature from the loathsome whole.

  Louise Bogan

  Hate, Choices, Joy

  Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

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• As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

  William Matthews

  Fire, Quality, Frost

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• Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally lacking at the time, but oddly enough I find that years later what I remember is not the event as I lived it but as I described it in a letter.

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  Writing, Frustration, Thinking

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.168, Penguin

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

  Harriet Lerner

  Two, Intimacy

  Harriet Lerner (2009). “Life Preservers: Staying Afloat in Love and Life”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

  Alice James

  Attitude, Struggle, Luxury

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

  Gene Tierney

  Flames

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• 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?

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Desire, Want, Pressure

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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• Death is not cold and frightful. Death is the sun in all its powerful intensity.

  June Havoc

  Death, Powerful, Sun

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• I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of a perfunctory conversation, and someone will say, 'Tell us what you really think.' Or 'Maybe you should switch to decaf.

  Maria Semple

  Thinking, Numbers, Middle

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• Nature formed me fierce.

  Lady Caroline Lamb

  Passion, Fierce

  Lady Caroline Lamb (1816). “Glenarvon ...”, p.197

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• It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.

  Maya Deren

  Fire, Flames, Break Through

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• With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Powerful, Book, Self

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• I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.

  Nina Berberova

  Passion, Joy, Feelings

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• I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.

  Marita Golden

  Pain, Answers, Half

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.33, Anchor

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• The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a physical verity. We do truthfully experience our lives differently because our bodies are different. It is in what we do with our experience that we are the same. We feel, absorb and examine with the same intensity, and intense experience honestly examined informs the art of both sexes equally. ... The power of imagination illuminates all human lives in common.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Sex, Men

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• When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Silence, Mind, Looks

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• 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.

  Bob Harper

  Movement, Crossfit, Type

  "I Drank the CrossFit Kool-Aid" by Bob Harper, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.

  Drew Barrymore

  Motherhood, Dedication, Focus

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• For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Expression, Mind, Movement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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