Intense Quotes - Page 38

• Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Prayer, Names, Ideas

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• Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Morning, Journey, Self

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• I think the leading cause of financial disablement is the belief that you can rely on the experts to help you. Investing requires an intense personal involvement.

  Michael Marcus

  Thinking, Experts, Investing

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• I always take an aspect between the ruling planets (i.e., the rulers of their Ascendants) as a testimony to the fact that the two people are likely to have a relationship of extraordinary intensity and importance… The close interaction of the ruling planets’ energies can be seen as indicative of a particularly specific symbol of how the two people interact with each other… in the vast majority of such cases, all of the other levels of interaction shown in a comparison will be secondary to the intense type of interchange symbolized by the aspect between the rulers.

  Stephen Arroyo

  Two, People, Energy

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• So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11; I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. I still wanted the work to be the same kind of mixture – intense, with a nasty side or an ugly side, but also with a real pathos about the characters – and clowns have an underlying sense of sadness while they’re trying to cheer people up. Clowns are sad, but they’re also psychotically, hysterically happy.

  Cindy Sherman

  Cheer, Real, Struggle

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• When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

  Michael Shannon

  Real, Everyday, Looks

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• Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me.

  Pauly Shore

  Fun, Hate, People

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• And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.

  Ellen Page

  Mean, Winter, Islands

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• I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.

  Eva Green

  Men, Years, Shopping

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• I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains in that way, the more we can do on screen and the better it looks. Nowadays, they want the actors to do as much as possible and stunt doubles are primarily used for the dangerous things that aren't covered by insurance.

  Melinda Clarke

  Intense Training, Hands, Knives

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• Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.

  Maryam d'Abo

  Recovery, People, Skins

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• I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because naked shape is a different kind of shape than just regular TV shape. Regular, having-your-clothes-on TV shape is intense, but naked TV shape is, I mean, you really have to watch what you eat.

  Sam Trammell

  Mean, Clothes, Sick

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• It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

  Adrien Brody

  Loneliness, Loss, People

  "Profile: Adrien Brody" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.

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• Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Country, Yoga

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

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• During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Sleep, Science, Curls

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• Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Irritation, Giving

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Adding Machine”, p.121, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Guitar, California, Southern

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• There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest. Thoreau was right.

  Paul Theroux

  Morning, Simple, Journey

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• I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

  Edward Zwick

  Movie, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Healing does not come through intense affirmation of divinity, or by simply pouring out love and the expression of a vague mysticism.It comes through mastering an exact science of contact, impression, of invocation plus an understanding of the subtle apparatus of the etheric vehicle.

  Alice Bailey

  Healing, Expression, Understanding

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• I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Jobs, Moving, Thinking

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• Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not wish to "record," but rather to touch upon the illusive meanings which I perceive and try to comprehend in this limitless universe.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Inspiration, Light

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• Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Art, Butterfly

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• We become our own enemy when we are thrown out of balance by anger, hatred, grief, or any other intense emotion. We are for the time being obsessed by something alien.

  Swami Paramananda

  Grief, Hatred, Enemy

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• Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Heart, Thinking

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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