Intensity quotes
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The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
-- Alan Hovhaness -
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
Without complexity, there's no intensity.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.
-- Ann Bridge -
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Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
-- Aristotle -
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
-- Arnold Bennett -
It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.
-- Bill Brandt -
CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.
-- Bob Harper -
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Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith
-- Bob Proctor -
Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
-- Boris Johnson -
It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.
-- Bram van Velde -
Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.
-- Brett Hoebel -
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For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
-- Cesare Beccaria -
And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.
-- Charles S. Dutton -
I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.
-- Claude Monet -
It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.
-- Cornel West -
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And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.
-- David Levithan -
Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.
-- Edward Howard Griggs -
Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.
-- Eli Broad -
...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
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A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.
-- Gene Tierney -
The bow always strung ... will not do.
-- George Eliot -
Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.
-- George L. Carlson -
We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.
-- Gina Lollobrigida -
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...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.
-- Hans F. Sennholz -
Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.
-- Harriet Lerner -
The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.
-- Harry Segall -
the higher the flame shoots the quicker it blacks out.
-- Helen Jacobs -
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Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
-- Herbert Read -
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
-- Idina Menzel -
Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it.
-- Jenson Button -
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Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.
-- Jim Rohn -
Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.
-- Joanne Woodward -
When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that’s a sign you are close to your victory.
-- Joel Osteen -
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
-- John Keats -
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Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
-- Jose Saramago -
Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.
-- Kathi Appelt -
I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.
-- Keith Crown -
Intensity builds immensity
-- Kevin Levrone -
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Nature formed me fierce ...
-- Lady Caroline Lamb -
When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.
-- Luc Tuymans -
I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
-- Mandy Patinkin -
I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of a perfunctory conversation, and someone will say, 'Tell us what you really think.' Or 'Maybe you should switch to decaf.
-- Maria Semple -
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Now abideth beauty, truth, and intensity; but the greatest of these is intensity.
-- Michel Houellebecq -
With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
-- Mike Myers -
There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity
-- Mina Loy -
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
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I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
-- Nina Berberova -
Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.
-- Nolan Bushnell -
She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.
-- Paul Bowles -
Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.
-- Paul Tournier -
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
-- Rafael Nadal -
Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.
-- Ricky Williams -
The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.
-- Robert Greene -
The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.
-- Robert Monroe -
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
-- Stendhal -
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.
-- Steven Chu -
Length is usually intensity. Not time.
-- Thomas Pynchon -
I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.
-- Virginia Woolf -
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Intensity is the price of excellence.
-- Warren Buffett -
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
-- William Hazlitt -
Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.
-- Wynton Marsalis -
When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.
-- Michael Snow -
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Be reckless in your intensities.
-- Perry Brass -
When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results.
-- Steven J Lawson -
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
-- Philip Levine -
What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.
-- Rene Burri -
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We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.
-- Gina Lollobrigida -
Music can really affect the intensity of a workout. I love having it during cardio especially.
-- Jamie Eason
