Quotes About Intensity

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.

Abbiamo perduto noi stessi e creato qualcos'altro, qualcosa che esiste in quanto ci unisce. Ci amiamo. Con tutta la profondità, l'intensità con cui è possibile amarsi.?

Here to win. Not to make 'em mad

your old-fashioned tirade—loving, rapid, merciless—breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head.

he is eloquently angry

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886

I had some time ago decided that the money-makers on the grand scale are monomaniacs and fanatics and self-willed.

There's never been a time in my life that I wasn't impatient, ecstatic one moment, morbid as hell another, and ready to be reckless almost any time.

The art of story is not about the middle ground, but about the pendulum of existence swinging to the limits, about life lived in its most intense states. We explore the middle ranges of experience, but only as a path to the end of the line. The audience senses that limit and wants it reached. For no matter how

A lawyer caught in the toils of a murder case is like a man newly fallen in love: his involvement is total.

I'm not here to write, I'm here to be mad.

Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.

The basic pattern in conflictual marriages is one in which neither gives in to the other or in which neither is capable of an adaptive role.... The relationship cycles through periods of intense closeness, conflict that provides a period of emotional distance, and making up, which starts another cycle of intense closeness.

Usually what people do in a relationship crisis is more of the same thing they have been doing, only more intensely and more anxiously.

The emotional intensity of a significant relationship is a stimulus that intensifies the drive toward togetherness. As each partner finds personal meaning in the relationship, the togetherness force becomes more intense, as though some sort of gravitational force were operating.

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

It is not a comfortable passion.

Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.

Live a high-volume life. Play full-out. Take risks. Reach high. Don't look back. Be authentic. Be great. "Live to the point of tears

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, mastery demands all of a person.

Play hard or don't play at all.

Think as if your life depended on it.