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Quotes About Intensity

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
~ Anais Nin
Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.
~ Bret Michaels
How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?
~ Brian Urlacher
Loud is a way of life.
~ Steven Adler
So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.
~ Jeff Gordon
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.
~ Florence Welch
Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.
~ Rajneesh
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
~ Bill Shankly
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
~ Arthur Miller
Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
~ Fritz Kreisler
Death can be more exciting than life.
~ George S. Patton
By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.
~ Joe Rogan
Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.
~ Dave Ramsey
When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard.
~ Dustin Pedroia
I do my job like I breathe — so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.
~ Carolyn Kizer
Our cells stimulate our pain receptors in order to get our brain to focus and pay attention. Once my brain acknowledges the existence of the pain, then it has served its purpose and either lightens up in intensity, or goes away.
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
The healthiest way I know how to move through an emotion effectively is to surrender completely to that emotion when its loop of physiology comes over me. I simply resign to the loop and let it run its course for 90 seconds. Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated. Over time, the intensity and frequency of these circuits usually abate. Really powerful thoughts
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
I can still remember Pete Rose, on the top step of the dugout screaming, "Fuck you, Shakespeare.
~ Jim Bouton
God will manifest himself in direct proportion to our passion for him.
~ Jim Cymbala
Color is an intense experience on its own.
~ Jim Hodges
Come on, baby, light my fireTry to set the night on fire.
~ Jim Morrison
Australian Rules football might best be described as a game devised for padded cells, played in the open air.
~ Jim Murray