Quotes About Intensity

Separé la persona «idea», que vende un producto intelectual en forma de una transacción o un determinado trabajo, de la persona «trabajo», que te vende su trabajo. Si se es persona «idea», no hay que trabajar duro, sólo pensar con intensidad. Se hace el mismo trabajo tanto si se producen cien unidades como si se producen mil.

One summer I decided to read the twenty novels by Émile Zola in twenty days, one a day, and managed to do so at great expense.

Or, if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time (assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until I recover completely and look forward to a repetition, rather than being subjected to the tedium of Japanese style low-intensity interminable office hours with sleep deprivation. Main course and dessert are separate.

confusing intensity with frequency.

If you are an idea person, you do not have to work hard, only think intensely.

Rogan caught her hand just before she got out of his reach, and tugged her slowly back toward him. His eyes met hers, and she realized just how good an actor he'd been for the last few days. Where before she saw mild interest, now she saw intensity. Need. Purpose. He put his hand on the back of her head and dipped down for the kiss she'd daydreamed.

She slammed down on the accelerator and headed north at eighty-five, dodging wreckage like a skier running a slalom.

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

We hear a voice that tends to be modulated with an intensity appropriate to the situation and with clear pronunciation

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pain that rankles after it.

What did she mean, study like you're going to die? She said she spit up blood, but is that for real? Is studying really worth dying for? I couldn't accept it, and I guess that was one of my weak points.

Walt Disney seldom dabbled. Everyone who knew him remarked on his intensity; when something intrigued him, he focused himself entirely as if it were the only thing that mattered.

The question wasn't whether or not I cared about him; the question was, how much? I'm glad Tennyson didn't ask that, because then I'd have to ask myself; and I already knew the answer. I cared far more than was safe.

I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.

I wanted to take everything I was feeling, put it in a cannon and aim it at him.

It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.

Now Goddard paces, whipping his fury into a caustic meringue.

But she was too deep into her rant to stop now.

Only stories of love pass through our post-mortal filter, yet even then, we are baffled by the intensity of longing and loss that threatens those mortal tales of love.

The problem was that Citra was very bad at doing things half-fast.

Love is the finest and foulest thing in the world. It will drive a man to greatness even while driving him into despair.

She took a few steps toward him but stopped – as if getting too close would burst some bubble, breaking the spell, and this tenuous night vision of Rowan would dissolve into nothing. But he ran toward her, and she found she was running, too, as if she had no control over her own legs. Perhaps she and Rowan had both grown so much larger than life that the gravity between them was too intense to resist. When they embraced, they nearly knocked each other off their feet.

Intense to the point of being off-putting.