“Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.” MenWorldTryingMindDesireBrokenCreatingAddMiseryHungerAdvertisingLuxuryOur TimeFrustrationIntensityConsumerismBentOverconsumptionStimulationConvertingBusiness WorldSensuous Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“The thing I like the most about Sachin is his intensity. After being in the game for so long, he still has the same desire to do well for India in any international match. I tell you what, this man is a legend.” MenWellsLongStillsDesireGamesIndiaInternationalIntensityLegendsCricketCricketers Author:Sourav Ganguly
“Those who desire to remain intoxicated by Reality do not require artificial intoxicants. Indulging in false things will only increase falsity, for every direction is indeed infinite. Those who desire the truly genuine Thing proceed of themselves with great intensity so as to progress in their sadhana.” RealityDesireProgressIncreaseInfiniteGenuineIntensityArtificialIntoxicatedFalsity Author:Anandamayi Ma
“I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?” KnowsWantDesireExistencePressureFasterIntensityDesire To Live Book:Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884 Source: Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884
“It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.” MomentsMightJoyDesireLevelsBreakFireHigherSceneDrawsCrowdsDisasterFlamesIntensityUnusualBreak ThroughHigher LevelMorbidity Author:Maya Deren
“One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another.” DesireFeltWaitingPoorReadyOne DayLonelyTragedyTownsMagazinesRestaurantsChestsIntensityExhaustedEarthquakesKneelingGraphs Author:Osamu Dazai
“It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.” WantMindRealityLawDesireForceCan DoRealizingVisionCreativeExpressionAmbitionConvictionAccomplishImpressionPsychologicalProportionResolutionIntensityImpressSubconsciousSubjectiveVowRegisterVigorSubconscious Mind Author:Orison S. Marden