Quotes About Intensity

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.

Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm.

I have lived my whole life with high intensity.

He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

Football is my life. There is no question about that.

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'

Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.