Intensity Quotes

“The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.”
― Elon Musk

“From my point of view it is immoral for a being not to make the most intense effort every instant of his life.”
― José Ortega y Gasset, On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme

“Are we, intellectual sirs, not actively or passively 'producing' more and more words, more books, more articles, ceaselessly refilling the pot-boiler of speech, gorging ourselves on it rather, seizing books and 'experiences', to metamorphose them as quickly as possible into other words, plugging us in here, being plugged in there, just like Mina on her blue squared oilcloth, extending the market and the trade in words of course, but also multiplying the chances of jouissance, scraping up intensities wherever possible, and never being sufficiently dead, for we too are required to go from forty to the hundred a day, and we will never play the whore enough, we will never be dead enough”
― Jean-François Lyotard, Libidinal Economy

“The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst — it sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.”
― Elon Musk

“You are the
remedy of intensity
i need in my life, to
spin me out of the
miserable monotony
of working on life's
daily assembly
lines.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“When an artist is asked to speak about form, you expect something different than when a critic talks about it. Because you think that somewhere between sentences and words, the secret will slip out. I am trying to give you that secret; it isn't a secret at all, but it is building solidly, not using secrets. I had been trying to extend into metaphysical extension; that film is changing, metamorphic; that is, infinite; the idea that the movement of life is totally important rather than a single life. My films were built on an incline, an increase in intensity. I hoped to make a form which was infinite, the changingness of things. I thought I would want to find a total form which conveyed that sense, particularly in reference to an Oriental subject. My impression was: one is walking down a corridor of a hotel. One hears a sound, opens a door and a man is playing; one listens for three minutes and closes the door. The music went on before you opened the door and it continues after you close the door. There was neither beginning nor end. Western music increases in intensity to a climax and then resolves itself. Oriental music is infinite; it goes on and on. The Chinese theater goes on for hours and hours with time for lunch moving scenery, etc.”
― Maya Deren

“There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“A thousand words blossomed to her lips and died there, because no amount of speaking could communicate the depths of how he’d affected her. Of how he’d changed her.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Rising for Autumn

“Intensity is the extreme application of force and strength”
― Sunday Adelaja

“What had been a perceived threat, a lien in a sense on future human behavior, was quickly reduced to a historical curiosity.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II

“Your intensity increases your net worth”
― Sunday Adelaja

“When you are intense, you will do things persistently and with speed”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The will, we have, is a very strong force. If we set our minds to get to a goal and focus intensely on it, it’s hard for anything to get in the way.”
― Ufuoma Apoki, The Return of Lucas

“Your intensity increases your productivity”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Learn to do everything with speed to be efficient and effective”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Speed is the ability to take a decision in a few seconds”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The doctrine of waiting for confirmation is one of the greatest time killers”
― Sunday Adelaja

“If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You need intensity to be quick”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You need focus and concentration to be effective in life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The amount of value produced at a certain period depends on the level of focus used to attain it”
― Sunday Adelaja

“I pushed my over-taxed muscles even harder. I could already hear the sound of the heavy wheels that moved the doors into place.

And I knew I was not going to make it . . .”
― J.C. Morrows, Life After E.L.E.

“Lukewarm is no good”
― Oswald Dahl

“By coming down elbow first, I'd made a large enough crack in the ice to sink through.
The water was so cold that it stopped time.”
― Rachel Sharp, A Word and A Bullet

“It's the quality of the effort made and not the intensity that determines the best end results.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail

“You have to be purposeful and intense to reclaim your lost years”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You need to understand the principle of intensity to reclaim time”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You don’t need any confirmation if you are already in the spirit”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Throw away the doctrine of waiting for confirmation”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You need speed to regain your lost years”
― Sunday Adelaja