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Quotes About Intensity

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.
~ Hans Ree
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
~ Michael Cunningham
I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.
~ Luchino Visconti
The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
~ Henry Miller
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I live my life with a sense of urgency that most people cant comprehend.
~ Marc Bolan
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
~ Elizabeth Drew
The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child.
~ Maria Montessori
We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that will determines what we accomplish and how well.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; This is a occupancy for people greedy for life - human life is not enough.
~ Jerzy Kukuczka
Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.
~ Seal
One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.
~ Blaise Cendrars
I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
~ Anais Nin
Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.
~ Chris Colfer
I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.
~ Jeff Buckley
The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.
~ Kirsten Dunst
Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.
~ Bill Rodgers
To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
~ Gary W. Keller
The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead.
~ John Boorman
I run until time stops. Until my mind stops. Until the only thing I feel is the cold metal of the license plate in my hand and the pounding of my blood.
~ Jennifer Niven
Eres todos los colores en uno, con su máxima intensidad.
~ Jennifer Niven
Es ist, als ob mein Gehirn so schnell laufen würde, dass ich nicht mitkomme. Worte. Farben. Klänge. Manchmal schiebt sich alles andere in den Hintergrund, und was zurückbleibt, ist der Klang.
~ Jennifer Niven