Quotes About Intensity

I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

I think that football has always had a passionate, aggressive side, with players giving their all. People have to get used to this.

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

You can't really be passionately moderate. It's like wearing an 'Extra Medium' - it doesn't exist.

I go about doing my work passionately.

One must always love passionately.

I do commit really, really passionately. It's why I only work every five years. It's exhausting.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

People also think Christians are very passive people, and that drives me crazy as an athlete because if you watch me play and compete, I'm the furthest thing from passive that you'll see on the baseball field. I love to compete, and I love to win.

Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.

This is a making-money business, and the only way to make money is knocking people out. Lying on someone? That's pathetic to me. You gotta drop a bomb.

In the 84 days after Beijing I had, on average, three things a day and one day off. I didn't sleep in the same bed for more than two nights in a row. It sounds a bit pathetic but it was exhausting - it was like really intensive training with no rest days.

Football has no patience.

Patience, discipline - giving everything on court... This is what I'm trying to bring in every single match.

It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In terms of coherence, it makes your average David Lynch movie look like 'Burn Notice.'

I kind of press pause when it's a derby, and the season doesn't matter to me anymore; it's all about the derby.

People assume I'm fearless. A lot of the things I deal with are pretty scary. Fear makes you pay attention - it's about absolute concentration.

I don't pay attention to stats or anything like that. I just pay attention to how I play and the intensity that I play with.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

Deciding together to have a child and sharing in child-rearing do not immunize a marriage. Indeed, collaborative couples can face other problems. They often embark on such an intense style of parenting that they end up paying less attention to each other.

My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I am writing. It's manic.

When there's a death consequence, when you are doing things that if you mess up you die, I like the way it causes my senses to peak. I can see more clearly. You can think much faster. You hear at a different level.

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.