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Quotes About Intensity

OW! MOONFIRE AND STAR VOMIT!" Darkstalker shouted, clutching his face. "HEAL, by all the snakes!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
staring at the rankings as if they could reshape them with the sheer force of their eyeballs.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
It was no trouble. I quite enjoyed myself. Let me know if there is ever anyone else I need to glare into oblivion.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Darkstalker writing in his scroll by firelight, writing as if his life depended on it.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
There is eloquence in screaming.
~ Patrick Jones
One of the best ways to recognize a cohesive team is the nature of its meetings. Passionate. Intense. Exhausting. Never boring.
~ Patrick Lencioni
with such vehemence as to cause a dull crepitation, followed by a shattering dart of agony.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Small, with blonde hair and an olive complexion, she was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze. Once one had seen her eyes, the rest of the face grew vague, and when one tried to recall her image afterwards, only the piercing, questioning violence of the wide eyes remained.
~ Paul Bowles
True brawn and power are developed by hard training sessions, not by long training sessions. Quality over quantity is an excellent motto for strength.
~ Unknown
Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.
~ Paul Schullery
She wanted to cry. To scream. To shriek like a crazy wind.
~ Paula Gunn Allen
Thinking so, a great wave of feeling swept through Clare. A feeling which was neither of the body nor the mind, but something between the two. An inconvenient feeling. Not only had she fallen in love with Ralph Schuyler, but she also loved him and everything about him with a passion..
~ Unknown
Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.
~ Paulo Coelho
What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.
~ Paulo Coelho
I haven't the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next.
~ Paulo Coelho
An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.
~ Paulo Coelho
Everything is important. If you live your life intensely, you experience pleasure all the time and don't feel the need for sex. When you have sex, it's out of a sense of abundance, because the glass of wine is so full that it overflows naturally, because it is inevitable, because you are responding to the call of life, because at that moment, and only at that moment, you have allowed yourself to lose control.
~ Paulo Coelho
With kettlebells, cardio intensity is increased by increasing the poundage, increasing the reps, speeding up the pace and/or extending the session duration. There seems to be little questioning that diligent use of kettlebells can provide a cardio session as intense as a person can stand and muscle hypertrophy will occur if the poundage is sufficient.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
To generate enough lactic acid to promote fat loss, you have to extend your sets to about a minute, then rest for a minute, then move on to your next set. (Nobody said it was easier than aerobics.)
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
Each session do as few or as many exercises as you wish but do not work equally hard on every one of them. For example, on Monday do a lot of sets of the bent press, on Tuesday skip the bent press or take it easy and work hard on snatches, etc. Do not be overly pedantic about the order. Just do not do one pet feat at the expense of everything else all the time. Also, do not be afraid to make some workouts relatively easier than others.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them ... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
~ Pearl S. Buck
He had other fires and these flamed higher than Love.
~ Pearl S. Buck
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Y que más? ¿Qué más quieres? Que me ames un poquito. Tú sabes que te quiero más que un poquito. No es lo mismo, entre amar y querer hay un mundo de diferencia. Te quiero con tu diferencia. No es lo mismo. YO POR TI, como dice una canción, CONTARÍA LA ARENA DEL MAR (con los ojos entornados). POR TI YO SERÍA CAPAZ DE MATAR.
~ Unknown