I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.
Going through the tour every year and just focusing so intensely on tennis all the time was not working for me.
There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
Finally, a human man saw me as intensely valuable. Just my luck he was happily married and thought I was a freak.
I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.
Leaders have to be intensely aware and be bold and flexible enough to adjust course ahead of impending changes.
It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels.
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
I dislike religion quite intensely. It's been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .
I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.
Most of the characters I'm drawn to, as an actor, are ones that are quite intensely lonely and a bit lost and are looking for some kind of redemptive answer.
I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
[Adolf Hitler] was always intensely worried about security and people watching or being nosy, intruding on his private life.
Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.
Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.
But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.
The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.
Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.
I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.
I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.
The intuitive, the expressive, the un-measurable, the intensely personal have never found a satisfactory place in the curriculum, in assessment, in the publics esteem.
The suspense in a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist himself, who is intensely curious too about what will happen to the hero.
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
You can sit next to somebody on the underground, and you can look at them quite intensely, but you can never, ever know what they're wearing under their clothes.
In one sense, newspaper editor is an appropriate job for an out-of-work politician; politicians live the news cycle as intensely as editors.
I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.
Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"
The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi. That's served in the past to create an image of me where I'm always frowning or looking angry.
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.
I danced so intensely, I learned the hard way that sometimes you can push your body too far.
I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant
As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.
Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!
I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.
I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.
Philadelphians are intensely loyal. They don't switch teams even when the Sixers lose by 63 points or the Phillies finish last in the NL East.
Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.
I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.
Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.
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