Intense Quotes - Page 39

• The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ego, Enemy, Savages

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• I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know [sigh], it’s nice to make people laugh sometimes.

  Julian Sands

  Nice, Drama, Character

  "The Delightfully Prickly Julian Sands". Interview with Michelle Orange, www.ifc.com. August 3, 2009.

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• At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.

  Maria Montessori

  Perseverance, Children, Exercise

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look at you. He couldn't speak, but everything else about him was, 'This is us, a family.' Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.

  Richard Griffiths

  Dad, Talking, People

  "A break in the clouds" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.

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• I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Blood, Sweat

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.39, Big Earth Publishing

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• I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Beautiful, Song, Albums

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• [T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mélange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the perfect show for the most intensely competitive culture in this solar system.

  Robert Klein

  Perfect, Competition, Atmosphere

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• There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Mistake, Science, Opportunity

  "The New Industrial State". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter XVIII, Section 5, p. 208, 1967.

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• A woman wouldn't make a bomb that kills you. A woman would make a bomb that makes you feel bad for a while. That's why there should be a woman President. There'd never be any wars, just every twenty-eight days there'd be very intense negotiations.

  Robin Williams

  War, Women, Eight

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• Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Pleasure, Should, Leather

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• Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Sex, Erotic

  Iris Murdoch (1984). “The Sacred and Profane Love Machine”, p.195, Penguin

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• Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

  Cyril Connolly

  Education, Disappointment, School

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Mexican, Soul, Intelligence

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• Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

  Richard Leakey

  Law, Skills, Survival

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• Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.

  Paul Davies

  Stars, Discovery, Space

  "Einstein, the first spin doctor" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

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• To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Dream, Moving, Sadness

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• There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

  Cesare Pavese

  Art, Pain, Suffering

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.207, Routledge

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• Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

  Carlos Castaneda

  Fashion, Strong, Order

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• There is a lot of difference between offering a garland of flowers bought from a shop and one that we make out of flowers picked from our home garden. When we plant the flowers, water them, pick the flowers, make the garland and take it to the temple, thoughts of God alone live in our minds. The Lord accepts anything offered to Him with intense Love. When we buy a garland at a store and place it on the deity it is only a ceremonial act while the other is a garland of pure devotion and an act of love.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Flower, Home

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• The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.

  Paul Reubens

  Sex, Children, Past

  "Pee-Wee Herman creator speaks out". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. April 5, 2004.

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• The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Cutting, Play, Long

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• I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

  Elia Kazan

  Thinking, Actors, Privilege

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• I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Athlete, Race

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 8, 2012.

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• There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

  Bill Pullman

  Lines, Remember, Moments

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• I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

  Juliette Binoche

  Dream, Trying, Film

  "A Star is Born: The Moment an Actress becomes an Icon". Book by George Tiffin, 2015.

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