Intensity Quotes

• Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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• Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.

  Roger McDonald

  Giving, Progress, Degrees

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• Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

  Emily Carr

  Practice, Trying, Ordinary

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.58, D & M Publishers

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• Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Time

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 19, 2017

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• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• Water gushing out of thousands of springs at different places cannot move the wheels of a big engine to carry out very heavy tasks. But the channeled flow of the same water in the bed of a stream will, however, be irresistible and can become a source of tremendous energy.

  Gulzarilal Nanda

  Powerful, Spring, Moving

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• The bow always strung ... will not do.

  George Eliot

  Stress, Bows

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• Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Happy, Art, Feelings

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.10, Princeton University Press

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• Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Jazz

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• You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great.

  Walter Russell

  Secret, Desire, Littles

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• Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "No Man is an Island".

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• The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

  John Keats

  Art, Excellence, Literature

  Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 192

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• The curiosity of cats is, like their affection, of a purity and intensity rarely seen in humans. We would be jaded when faced with the fiftieth paper bag. Not so our cats.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Cat, Curiosity, Would Be

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2002). “The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey Into the Feline Heart”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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• The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Focus, One Deep

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• A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Money, Party, Race

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• I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

  Juliette Binoche

  Knowing, Space, Needs

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• Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivation

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• I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

  Arsene Wenger

  Player, Thinking, Practice

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• When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.

  Bill Loguidice

  Fitness, Work Out, Length

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• I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

  Gene Tierney

  Sexy, Jobs, Intelligent

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Ordinary, Genius, Done

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.311

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• Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

  Zakk Wylde

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Passion

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• People happy in love have an air of intensity.

  Stendhal

  Love, Heart, Air

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• All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

  Alan Rickman

  Listening, Actors, Want

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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

  Progress, Literature, Scope

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

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