Unsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?
I've always put myself intensely into my work.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.
One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.
The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love.
I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.
I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.
I hate writing. I so intensely hate writing - I cannot tell you how much. The moment I am at the end of one project I have the idea that I didn't really succeed in telling what I wanted to tell, that I need a new project - it's an absolute nightmare. But my whole economy of writing is in fact based on an obsessional ritual to avoid the actual act of writing.
Eddie was intensely dedicated too. Adrian sometimes called him mini-Dimitri
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
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"
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.
Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.