Intensity Quotes - Page 30

• The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

  Dylan Thomas

  Texture, Moments, Passages

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (1992). “On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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• I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that's been an important lesson for me. It's useful not to dump on people while simultaneously expressing a truth or a feeling if it's necessary, without diluting the intensity of the lyric.

  Martha Wainwright

  Writing, People, Feelings

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• Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash.

  Edmund White

  Flames, Ashes, Psychoanalysis

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

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• I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Emotional, Thinking, Swim

  Source: collider.com

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• And I never thought about how the lights don't go out, so you never really rest, in that way. I never really thought about the intensity of being watched, all the time. Those are some things that I didn't know about prison.

  Taylor Schilling

  Light, Way, Prison

  Source: collider.com

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• The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface.

  Stephen Beal

  Meditation, Sound, Gestures

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Hydrogen Fuel, Oxygen

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Abandoned”, p.142, Jules Verne

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• When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from
  the tone of our culture.

  Francis Chan

  Different, Culture, Scripture

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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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• In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

  Donovan Bailey

  Running, Race, Next

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• It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Spiritual, Believe, Animal

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2310, Simon and Schuster

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• Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Intellect, Magnitude

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• The atmosphere at the different arenas has been pretty crazy. It's been a lot of fun coming to the rink every night and competing at this level and intensity. It's going to continue and get better.

  Eric Staal

  Fun, Crazy, Night

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• My eyes are so big that, weirdly, I feel like an alien if my eyelashes don't match their intensity. I like to curl my lashes to the point where they're sticking straight up and then put on a ton of mascara!

  Sarah Hyland

  Eye, Curls, Aliens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

  Laura Marling

  Confused, Maturity, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Grandchildren, Years

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• By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Names, Consciousness

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes into a series of lovely observations about the world, but you've got to find the story.

  Lenny Abrahamson

  Focus, Lovely, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Self, Long, Effort

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• Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passionate, May, Substitutes

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

  Eric Hoffer

  Moving, Self Confidence, Skills

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Literature, Artistic

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.51, Univ of California Press

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• Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?

  Eli Siegel

  Artist, Color, Serenity

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• I've learned my tricks. I know what I like. I do not wait around. I initiate. And I'm not all about frequency - I favor intensity.

  Halle Berry

  Waiting, Favors, I've Learned

  "Report: Halle Berry Says She Takes Control in Bed". www.foxnews.com. October 20, 2008.

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• You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.

  Alain Vigneault

  Hockey, Ice, Play

  "Game Day with Coach Alain Vigneault" by Alanah McGinley, kuklaskorner.com. May 24, 2011.

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