Quotes About Intensity

Cuando me enamoro, me da muy fuerte y, por regla general, es algo que ocurre varias veces al día

A bruising love where every pat was just this side of a slap. The love one has for something always beneath you.

Love and hate have just knife's edge between them.

Fuck,' he whispered. 'Aye,' said Shivers. Craw almost took a tumble on the wet grass. 'Til he remembered there was an awful lot a man could be saying fuck about. That's the beauty of the word. It can mean just about anything, depending on how things stand. Horror, shock, pain, fear, worry. None were out of place. There was a battle on.

Her whisper was, Lyman thought, like a Marlin ripping all the line out of a fishing rod.

Next, using any song that inspires you (like the one you used for the meditation in Chapter 5), do that meditation to pull the mind out of the body. Take all the energy stored in your body as survival emotions and liberate it into elevated emotions, using a level of intensity that is greater than the body as the mind.

Moderation in training means that you seldom explore your physical limits. Athletes often attempt the hardest workouts they can do. Long workouts are much too long, and intensity is often way too high. Most seem to believe that peak fitness comes from pushing their limits several times each week, and rest is viewed as something for sissies. That way of thinking is a sure way to derail your training frequently. Moderation in workout duration and intensity is what you should seek.

Continuing to train with high intensity results in roughly half as much decline as training with long, slow distance only.

The more challenging the mission, the more your life must be focused on it. That means not only your training, but also your eating and sleeping, the support of your family and friends, and much more.

plyometrics movements. This is when you are getting the hang of doing the movements that are involved in both types of training and refining them. Following AA, as you move into the MT and MS periods, gradually increase both the weight loads and the plyometric intensities. For example, move from rope skipping to low-box jumping to high-box jumping. The MS period is when you will

The sky was the color of a migraine.

Her anger didn't have a fixed point.

Sam Cleary reached the two old men fighting on the ground and used the fire extinguisher for the first time, bringing it down two-handed to hit Charlie Manx in the face. He would use it for the second time on Tom Priest, not thirty seconds later, by which time Tom was well dead. Not to mention well done.

There was an intensity of sensation when you were on the edge of what you could handle, when you were physically tested and made to fight for each breath, that was somehow exhilarating.

FEAR THICKENS TIME, TURNS IT slow and viscous. One second of deeply felt terror lasts longer than ten regular seconds.

She didn't like to feel things so intensely. It reminded her of being crazy.

He knew, too, from things Vic had not told him, that she missed him and loved him with an intensity perhaps matched only by what she felt for her son.

Little novels aren't leisurely, meandering journeys. They're drag races. You put the pedal to the floor and run your narrative right off the edge of the cliff.

O mundo inteiro pode se incendiar à nossa volta – disse Jakob. – Eu vou te abraçar até o fim. Você não vai ter como fugir de mim.

You want to be able to read such stories in just one or two sittings. You want them to feel like a hand on your throat.

If you hated someone, she was at least worthy of your passion.

Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly.

Nell'invecchiare – e, in realtà, non è che sia poi così vecchio: neanche arrivo ai sessanta – scopro che per me il passato ha più importanza del presente. Non sarà un bene, però è la verità. All'epoca, tutto era ben più intenso. Il sole era più caldo. Il vento più fresco. I cani più svegli.

That first noggin shot I hit him so hard I bet his fuckin' dog back home shit a turd in the shape of a praying Jesus.