Intensity Quotes

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton

Happiness, Matter, Balance

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats

Best, While, Worst

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.
Cornel West

Love, Peace, Women

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Bertrand Russell

Emotional, Himself, Belief

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Henry A. Wallace

Money, Power, Him

People happy in love have an air of intensity.
Stendhal

Love, Happy, Air

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
Emile Zola

Life, Beauty, Great

If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.
Colin Powell

Passion, Down, Leader

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats

Art, Making, Capable

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nature, After, Present

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.
Henry Rollins

Great, Morning, Against

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian

Long, Sometimes, Her

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
Brian Eno

Religion, Yourself, Strong

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Marya Mannes

Dreams, Romantic, End

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself.
Jerry Saltz

Heart, Him, Night

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
Zakk Wylde

Passion, Working, Same

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
Jose Saramago

Life, Rest, Either

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
Alan Rickman

Actor, Listening, Accuracy

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
Gene Tierney

Family, Job, Romances

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin

Life, Against, Natural

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
Herbert Read

Experience, Human, Progress

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.
Anthony Hopkins

Work, Fine, Directors

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Susan Sontag

Love, Famous, Strong

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
Mike Myers

Alone, Between, Fame

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
Christopher Meloni

Movies, Yourself, Live

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
Naveen Jain

Time, Great, Focus

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.
Mia Wasikowska

Person, Become, Dance

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.
Paul Walker

Enjoy, Why, Violence

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
Mandy Patinkin

Person, Obsessive

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
Steve Lacy

Song, Voice, Approach

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