Intense Quotes - Page 34

• Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.

  James Salter

  Impatient

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.123, Vintage

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• Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

  James Salter

  Inequality

  "James Salter: The Greatest Writer You've Never Read" by Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. August 21, 2015.

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• At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

  John Pople

  Book, Class, Age

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• The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

  Ellen Key

  Self, Movement, Affirmation

  Ellen Key (2016). “The century of the child”, p.32, Ellen Key

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• Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.

  Frances Harper

  Love, Suffering, Love Is

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.109, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.

  Rick Larsen

  Children, Sleep, Leaving

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• Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

  Keith Henson

  Successful, Behaviour, Attention

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• Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

  Samantha Stosur

  Games, Intense Training, Tennis

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

  Edwin Land

  People, Focus, After Hours

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• Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Creativity, Simple

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• You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Believe, Adventure

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• Find your own dream! Keep this dream and take good care of it and then sometime you will accomplish something [and feel the intense satisfaction that only the achievement of a long held, worthwhile goal can give].

  Koichi Tanaka

  Dream, Long, Giving

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• People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Optimistic, People, Events

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.161, Penguin

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• The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.

  Glenn Frey

  Drinking, Eagles, Years

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• Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Next Day, Growth, Useless

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.228, Random House

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• World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars.

  David Frum

  War, Fighting, History

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• People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

  Lorne Michaels

  Zoos, People, Laughing

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• A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Real, Unique

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

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• I always look for an intense experience, an intense ride. There is nothing better than a good zombie movie where you run crazy and blow at monsters! It was a physical shoot and I enjoyed it.

  Sarah Polley

  Running, Crazy, Blow

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• Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong.

  Tim Lebbon

  Pain, Fear, Real

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• Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.

  Ai Weiwei

  Sports, Workout, Car

  Ai Weiwei @aiww, twitter.com. January 03, 2012.

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• And the night smells like snow.
  Walking home for a moment
  you almost believe you could start again.
  And an intense love rushes to your heart,
  and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable.

  Franz Wright

  Believe, Home, Heart

  Franz Wright (2009). “God's Silence”, p.5, Knopf

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• It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Men, Ideas, Together

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• Tom Regan’s now classic Case for Animal Rights blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals have been better off and people have become better persons. This new edition is a welcome sign of this influence continuing.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Taken, Animal, Rights

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• Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.

  Marcia Angell

  Pain, Should Have, Practice

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