Top 225 Intensity Quotes

Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the world that can least afford to lose the nourishment. The size of deserts would increase, along with the frequency and intensity of wildfires.

The difference between the Premier League and the other leagues is the intensity of the games.

I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming – the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

Since Carlo Ancelotti has arrived, he had emphasised hard work and intensity, and now that is what Real Madrid are associated with. He has playing experience, which makes him different to other coaches.

I am an only child, so I relate to the intensity of that single-parent, mother-daughter relationship.

Yes, it is possible to love more than once. Every time you give of yourself, the intensity grows.

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it’s become a cliche, so I don’t want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.

Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

I’m not affected by violence the way some people are. I don’t know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

It’s unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don’t understand that you’ve got to practice the way you play.

Maybe Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack the back four with so many players, from almost anywhere on the pitch. They have an intensity with the ball and without the ball, and it is not easy to do that.

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have – to be taken away from one’s family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

You really don’t do anything else in your life; it’s a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.

I have realized that intensity is my unique point. I don’t have to attempt it; it’s innate. So, when every actor is seeking his individuality, I guess I have already found mine.

‘Twilight’ passed like a fever through the sophisticated reader and the unsophisticated reader alike. People devoured those books in single sittings, over weekends, with a kind of raw intensity that is rare.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

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

Bette Midler was my first love, and the intensity of those feelings remain.

For all my success with the Ramones, I carried around fury and intensity during my career. I had an image, and that image was anger. I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.

I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there’s an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they’re real people, ya know?

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I’ve realized I can’t operate at that level of intensity. That’s okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

The intensity of ‘Arjun Reddy’ was too much for me.

You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it’s like, game on.

We have to keep up our guard. We won’t get the risk of Ebola to zero in the U.S. until we stop it in West Africa. And Ebola is hard to fight. It requires intensity. It requires speed and flexibility.

My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.

I needed to step back from cricket, international cricket in particular, to get away from the scrutiny and intensity. I love it but it was too much for me.

I am an intense person on the field. I always want to win, as it matters to me a lot. That’s why I never like to lose the focus or intensity.

I always liked the intensity of the recording.

The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.

That quiet intensity really brings a lot of confidence to your team and I think intimidates a lot of other teams.

I remember George Jones singing on television, but not any of the songs he sang. What I remember was my visceral reaction to him, the intensity of my distaste.

You never really know what’s inspired you or made you who you are, but I was really lucky that I got to grow up in places like Japan and Hong Kong that are super energetic and have this intensity to them.

The intensity of the story breaking on ‘Vampire’ has never been easy. Every week, you’re starting with a blank board and trying to make a new movie. There’s no formula; there’s no franchise to hang your hat on.

You see it in the stuff I’ve done at Laika: I’ve always tried to make movies that have an artful blend of darkness and light, intensity and warmth. That have a thinking brain and a strong beating heart at the centre of it.

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

My husband and I own a CrossFit Gym. Crossfit is perfect for me because it’s always competitive, all the workouts are in a class environment, and it’s different every day. It’s a constantly varied functional fitness workout done with intensity.

If we want to fight at the end of the season for big things and to lift trophies, you need to keep that intensity always.

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

I love Fincher, as he has a great atmosphere and intensity. Also, I grew up watching Hitchcock movies, and there was something elegant in the way he plays with you and plays with the character and tricks you.

I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it’s a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.

Obviously, I can always get better on defense, improve intensity, my willingness to be locked in and stay in a stance, all that stuff is great, but I feel like playmaking, for myself, not only to create shots for myself but to create shots for others, benefits everybody.

It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.

The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time – a.k.a. medical progress.

Of course, everyone knows my history as far as technical fouls, but I don’t think you can match the intensity that I bring to the floor.

I started running to different albums, and I was starting with the short albums and moving on to the longer albums. I was interested in how they built up, in tempo and intensity. it made me interested in albums again, too.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

Honestly, Thibs is a dog. He’s a guy that is an extreme competitor and very aware of everything that’s going on. Takes each possession like it’s our last, and really coaches with the type of intensity and passion that you want from a coach.

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.

I don’t think I’m an unhappy person. It’s just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It’s just not having enough layers of skin. It’s exhausting.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.

My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In ‘March,’ everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters.

Old Korn records had so much intensity.

I think people were grateful for the intensity of the romantic aspects of Bridgerton;’ I’m not sure how grateful I was to watch it for myself.

It is difficult to take in how long you have been doing one thing when you compete at the highest level and always with the highest intensity.

For every team in the playoffs, their defensive intensity, their defensive attention to detail just becomes greater.

I’m looking for an intensity of focus. It’s a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten and tighten, and nothing really changes until you hit that tension, and suddenly it’s there: you’ve got a note.

Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

I’m an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.

One thing we’ve talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what’s the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

I train about six days a week. I’m training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I’ve done it for my entire life, and I love it.

The abortion industry and their workers are under unique pressure and constantly in the spotlight because abortion is so controversial, and people on both sides are considerably passionate. This isn’t a typical nine-to-five job. It’s on a whole other level of intensity.

I’ve been dancing since I was 6 years old. That kind of relentless dedication and intensity is where I’m comfortable.

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

In ’24,’ you spend so much time with your faces really close, eye contact with such intensity.

The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it’s all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

If you’re a content creator looking to elicit a certain emotion, we can validate that. In cases where an ad is trying to elicit humor, we can tell you if people get the jokes or not by the number of people who smile, the intensity of the smile, and the timing of the smile.

I just work out hard enough that, if I’m craving something, I eat it and know I’m going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.

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.

I follow tennis, and I actually went to Wimbledon during the summer, and it was nice to get a day off during pre-season to watch it. Basketball as well – I don’t have a team; it’s just a casual interest – especially when the play-offs come around and the intensity rises.

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it’s me and I’m coming back in the next race. I’m always ready for the next race.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it’s all on you. No matter what happens, it’s entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

I don’t see myself coaching because the intensity of that is massive, and the intensity as a manager, for example Arsene Wenger, is even more.

If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it’s just that wordless intensity that doesn’t necessarily have to mean anything.

The NBA is intense, but the NFL is a whole ‘nother level of intensity and dramatic, game-changing plays.

People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don’t think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can’t stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you’re tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.

Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power – and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness.

People get injured everyday doing simple things. The problem comes sometimes when people crank up the intensity on skilled movements before they are ready.

The best example is the NBA, with high intensity and long breaks. During the season, the NBA teams play every three days. That’s a lot, and they also travel far. But from the end of May until October, they have their break.

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

I get fired up in big games. Other guys might get scared, but with me, my intensity overrules my jitteriness.

When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.

Gérard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it while he was on a ski trip with his family. He probably shouldn’t have been thinking about lasers.

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

The best training program in the world is absolutely worthless without the will to execute it properly, consistently, and with intensity.

I love English football because of its brilliant atmosphere, intensity of the competition and the culture of respect that fans and players have for the game.

When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There’s such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you’re experiencing in your head.

I’m a big Pacino fan. He’s a great actor: so much passion and intensity.

Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention… ‘Life at These Speeds’ has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.

Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game… I still love it to this day.

Love is a component of many different things – the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It’s not something to count on and act like it’s a stable thing.

If you go in with intensity and fight for the ball it gives you more confidence in the game and you can play better.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

I like intensity. If it’s too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it’s way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it’s my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It’s hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

My secret is to train as intensively as I can, if possible, with the same intensity you experience in a real match.

New York is this cacophony – a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.

In my view, fitness training isn’t that important in England, as they all train with such intensity anyway and have a competitive edge when just sprinting. The matches are all hard-fought, too.

Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That’s the beautiful thing, man, we’re actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.

It is so difficult when you are out for a year, not just because you are not playing, but because other players are still playing. They are in competition all the time, so when you come in again and try to play them at the same level, with the same intensity, it is very hard.

So it was really cool just reinventing myself, changing my look, my image, my intensity, my ring-work style, everything that went along with it.

Maybe I’ve just been incredibly fortunate, but there’s a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction… Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

The toughest opponent for me would have been Randy Savage, the Macho Man, because his intensity paralleled mine.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

Climate change is already upon us, and its effects are being felt with increasing intensity.

For ‘Fright Night,’ we really want to convey the fun attitude of the movie and show the intensity of Colin Farrell as a predator. He’s not a brooding vampire – he’s dark and dangerous.

I’ve always liked the way Southampton play football, high intensity and really aggressive playing. The way they play with the full-backs I’m not going to be sitting back for the whole game, it is going to give me opportunities to get forward and show what I can give in attack.

Games bring another level out in you. There is no way you can train to the same intensity when you are playing a game. It is just impossible. Your head won’t allow you to do it. Because the adrenalin of a game and the importance of it steps it up to another level.

Nudity has never seemed to bother Grace Jones. Her art has thrived, in part, on a physical candor that both shocked people and redrew the boundaries of taste, beauty, and eroticism around her masculinity, ebony skin, and unrelenting intensity.

It’s a relaxed intensity I’ve got to live my life in.

There are no expectations on a 40-year-old man. All I have to worry about is intensity, and things will take care of themselves. I don’t have to worry about championships, all-star games, contracts. I can just walk on the court and play.

The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is a private matter, but the death of a tyrant is always a political act that reflects the character of his power.

I think actually what keeps the intensity manageable – it’s a little counterintuitive – is that it’s changing all the time. Every week is different for me.

I love the intensity of the fine-dining kitchen, but loathe the fine-dining experience.

No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.

People underestimate the impact of lack of sleep; not only will the intensity of your workouts suffer, but you are likely to crave sugary foods the next day.

The reason why the entire world sits up and watches World Cup football is the intensity of involvement with which people are playing a game: just kicking a ball around, but with such skill and involvement that it is like the last thing they are going to do in their life.

Everything is in your face. The battle is that you’re getting things from all ends like never before and the intensity is being turned up like never before. So there’s a call to be set apart, and there’s a call to speak the truth, and there’s a call to start standing up and putting your faith in action.

It’s more than just playing hard. You have to maintain concentration and you have to combine that with your intensity level.

You must bring a white-hot level of intensity and focus to your work.

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

Essentially, we’re always trying to reduce latency. As you try to reduce the latency of the experience, you can only get it down so far before we start running into the limitations of game engines, computing, the intensity of the experience you’re trying to compute.

It’s one of those once in a lifetime opportunities for me to be sharing the screen with a star of the stature of Pawan Kalyan, and I jumped at it. The intensity that he brings to the screen is incredible, he’s a phenomenal performer.

It takes a very tough man to play defensive line at any level of football, but to be able to do it on a Division 1 level, or a professional level, it takes that intensity, that aggression, and you have to be tough.

The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, trying to take this seat from which we have done so much for our community – to take this seat and give it to this Van Tran, who is very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic.

Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.

For me, purity of movement wasn’t enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don’t suffer, how do we know that we live?

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

Cardio-based exercise involves moving at a moderate intensity, using many muscle groups at once. Think: walking, jogging, cycling, etc.

I think a lot of guys make a mistake of training less as they get older. I think the older you get, the harder you have to train. Maybe you don’t train as long, but the intensity goes up.

When I was part of McGregor’s sparring camp, I struggled to find words to compliment him; I knew he couldn’t fight from the first moment we sparred. It’s very hard to find nice things to say about his skills. Perhaps his best attribute is his intensity, but he has to do it cleanly.

I think there’s something about being absolutely at the height of intensity at almost every moment of one’s job that makes it a lot easier if you don’t have time to think much, just sort of barrel through the next crisis.

I used to be a big arena person. I thought more people equaled more intensity, but smaller places are a lot more intimate, I feel more connected with the audience.

‘m really proud of ‘Sad, Sad World’ because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced when I had children, which is this great happiness and this great intensity, but with that intensity comes a deeper understanding of the world.

You’re grateful to have brothers in the league, and then when it comes down to it, and you have a brother on the same team, that’s awesome. It’s a lot more support and a lot more intensity we can bring out in each other because we know each other like that.

I watch a lot of football and you hardly ever see Premier League players go down with cramp. The fitness, the intensity of Premier League football is phenomenal.

At Burnley, I’d enjoy myself with my missus and friends, but because at Tottenham we’re playing Saturday-Tuesday, even Wednesday-Sunday, and with the intensity we play at, playing in the Champions League, we can’t afford to have a night out.

I defended my Strikeforce belt twice, and you didn’t see me lose any of my intensity, drive, or motivation. That’s just the way I am. I will always be hungry.

Donald Trump called for the closing of borders to Muslims; John McCain said, in response to the President’s address on the San Bernardino shooting, that ‘this is the war of our time.’ As that shooting shows, we react to terrorism with far more intensity than we do to an ordinary crime.

I always demand intensity in training. That’s my style, and I like it.

I think there will be times where I need to be more serious, and I’ll show that. I’ll show an intensity that I think a lot of people can’t really show or portray.

I suppose I’m really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level.

When you come from younger teams, and you reach the main squad, there are always difficulties you have to deal with, like the intensity, the maturity, and the experience of the players.

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.

You can be a manager in Spain, France or Italy but when you come to England the intensity is totally different. It is about the fight, the spirit. The intensity is extremely difficult.

KG is Minnesota basketball, he is the Timberwolves – what he did, just the intensity he brought to the game.

My favorite thing do is HITT workouts, or high interval intensity workouts. like to do that because I’m not really a cardio person.

‘Next to Normal’ has challenged me as an actor because of how complex Diana is. And that’s got me hungry for another character like that in a non-singing role because it would be interesting to express that same intensity in a different way.

But most commonly, it’s one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

It’s very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

Cardio should remain low-impact at first. You can gradually kick up the intensity. Interval training is a great way to incorporate short bouts of strength and cardio efficiently, too.

But size isn’t everything – effort and intensity is, especially in the fourth quarter.

Our standards at Bayern are extremely high, with every training session at very high intensity.

Depending on the day’s training intensity, we stretch, work on mobility, everything to prepare myself well. Later, we train, and depending on the day we do more physical work, more technical or more tactical. The duration also varies between 45 minutes and an hour and a half.

In Italy, they are incredibly competitive. It may be that their game is more defensive, but they defend so well; here in Germany, there is more speed and intensity. In England, they are more direct, very box-to-box.

The intensity and speed of the ball on turf are very different.

It’s important to work slowly and intelligently in your strength work before revving up the intensity. Start with deep diaphragmatic breathing to reengage and reconnect with your abdominals.

Flamenco is dark – it’s about tragedy and intensity.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it’s something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn’t compute with our existing educational system.

In some ways, the ’60s were a reaction to the ’50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

I’ve been dancing since I was 6 years old. That kind of relentless dedication and intensity is where I’m comfortable.

Perhaps the tranquillity of ‘Deracine’ heightens the violence in ‘Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice,’ while the intensity of ‘Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice’ makes ‘Deracine’ all the more serene.

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

Most of the games are decided by a small margin. That shows the intensity and the competitiveness of the English league. Everyone knows here the competition is ferocious. It’s a bit different than the Portuguese league. But I’m going to try to adapt to this league as quick as possible.

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.

I want the women’s division to have that legitimacy, I want it to have that intensity and the aggressiveness, and I feel like that’s where I personally can contribute.

I realized poetry’s the thing that I can do ’cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That’s 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.

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

Everything ‘Atonement’ does, it does incredibly well, including depicting characters of varying ages and temperaments and showing the intensity of early romantic love and connection and the very different intensity of haunting regret.

I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins – I liked other poems… but Hopkins was kind of electric for me – he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.

Within a safe environment, the theater, you can have a big ride, big ups and downs, intensity, warmth, humanity, laughs, tears – you want that full range of emotion.

Fans want their emotions to come to the surface. How? By their team transmitting intensity, attacking, scoring goals, competing, winning. That awakens them.

Everything I’ve tried to do at Laika, searching for an artful blend of darkness and light, intensity and warmth, humour and heart, I wanted to bring to the Transformers franchise.

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.

If I didn’t get paid to play this game, I’d still play it the exact same way, with as much intensity and as much focus as I play it with now.

The odd thing is how, I think, the intensity and devotion to my craft and the intensity of certain performances or types of roles I’ve played overshadow the comedic stints that I’ve had. ‘Darjeeling Limited’ is a comedy; The ‘Brothers Bloom’ is a comedy.

People think the gold medal is yours and they say you’re going to win – but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren’t doing it negatively – they’re mostly lovely and they really do want you to win – but they don’t understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.

The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.

I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist’s voice without making it sound as though I was ‘dumbing down’ to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.

We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it’s totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one’s intensity is funny.

Ray Lewis, I’ve grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.

‘Intensity’ is a good word. It’s like ambition, if it’s not ambition at expense of someone else.

My mode of presentation is short-form video – basically I create fast cut, impassioned ‘idea explainers’ that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility.

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.

Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it’s hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world’s most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.

There is such a thing as building a fight, that’s no problem, we’re going into fight each other. That takes certain levels of intensity that you have to have. You’re going in there to hurt the guy and he’s going to do the same to you so that’s understandable.

At the end of the day, you’re saying lines and playing pretend. All that varies from show to show is the level of the intensity and the terms of the expectations you place on yourself.

I like Draymond Green’s intensity… but every time I didn’t get a call I didn’t cry all the time.

The capping of cash transactions will help the banks reduce cash intensity.

The playoffs are like nothing else. The intensity is off the meat rack and I’m looking forward to going back.

At LAIKA, we try to find an artful balance of darkness and light, intensity and warmth, and humor and heart. The idea of being able to bring that philosophy to ‘Bumblebee’ was really exciting.

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

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you’re telling.

I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.

A radiometer is a device for measuring the intensity of radiation. A microwave radiometer consists of a filter to select a desired band of frequencies followed by a detector which produces an output voltage proportional to its input power.

I love going on Chris Hayes’ show. It probably is my favorite because of the intensity of the intellectual combat.

We proved that we could increase laser intensity by orders of magnitude. In fact, CPA led to the most intense laser pulses ever recorded. Our findings changed the world’s understanding of how atoms interact with high-intensity light.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

If you don’t play with intensity in this league, you’re going to get embarrassed. Without hard work, you don’t have a chance.