#intensity

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) ↗

— Eve Ensler

#being-alive #being-different #difference #intensity #love

I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal into their hearts, I scrutinize their most fundamental beliefs, I scan their irrational impulses, their unspeakable emotions, I sleep in their lungs during the summer and their muscles during the winter, and all of this I do without the least effort, without intending to, without asking or seeking it out, without constraints, driven only by love and devotion. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#intensity #love #dreams

From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#beginning #characters #doing #end #energy

I just really want to continue on the same intensity of work ethic, I don't want to slow now. I'm 21-year's old and I feel like this era and a few years to come are my prime years, so I want to utilise them. ↗

— Jason Derulo

#continue #era #ethic #feel #few

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#any #guy #i #i do #intensity

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#conviction #full #intensity #lack #passionate

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#directors #fine #i #intensity #know

I always liked the intensity of the recording. ↗

— Chris Bailey

#i #i always #intensity #liked #recording

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. ↗

— Steven Chu

#become #higher #intensity #laser #like

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#curse #diminishes #dreams #end #expectation