Intensity Quotes - Page 22

• There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se...but for me, to go to sea is to get a glimpse of the face of God. At sea I am reminded of my insignificance-of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.

  Steven Callahan

  Religious, Men, Sea

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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

  Persistence, Lifetime, Proportion

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• As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.

  Keith Johnstone

  Children, Eye, Perception

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.13, Routledge

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• Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

  Karl Marx

  Animal, Men, Delight

  Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

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• I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

  Henry George

  Home, School, Thinking

  "Beyond the Looking Glass". Book by Colin Gordon (p. 29), 1982.

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• War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

  Wesley Clark

  War, Hatred, Lasts

  Interview with Laura Knoy, New Hampshire Public Radio, November 5, 2003.

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• Making a movie is, for me, like painting. I just enjoy the care that goes into every brushstroke and the choice of every color. I enjoy the intensity of it.

  Abbie Cornish

  Color, Choices, Care

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• The reason I don't drink is that the drinking lifestyle robs me of my musical intensity and sharpness. I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.

  Johnny Marr

  Drinking, Focus, Healthy

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• I will try to hold on to the intense feeling. I will both be glad that that’s no longer happening and kind of miss it. When you’re 14, you’re basically on drugs all the time - the hormones in your body are so crazy. But I really loved and appreciated the intensity of that. And you’re experiencing everything for the first time, so everything feels like an epiphany. And, like, I really liked the experience of having a crush, because I was like, this is my thing and it doesn’t have to do with you and you’re just some dummy boy for me to project on.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Crush, Crazy, Boys

  "At 18, Tavi Gevinson Is a Fashion Veteran—and a Broadway Rookie". Interview with Amy Larocca, www.thecut.com. August 10, 2014.

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• We want to be in a situation under maximum pressure, maximum intensity, and maximum danger.  When it's shared with others, it provides a bond which is stronger than any tie that can exist.

  Seal

  Ties, Stronger, Want

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• In the back I see many potential legends, some of them with warrior spirits. And you will do the same for them. You will decide if they live with the passion and intensity. So much so that you will tell your stories and you will make them legends as well. I am Ultimate Warrior. You are the Ultimate Warrior fans. And the spirit of Ultimate Warrior will run forever.

  The Ultimate Warrior

  Running, Passion, Warrior

  "Ultimate Warrior Spoke of Death in Final Speech". www.news24.com. April 09, 2014.

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• The new guys bring energy, intensity and emotion. The last couple games, they showed what they can bring to the team.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Couple, Team, Games

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• I've been dancing since I was 6 years old. That kind of relentless dedication and intensity is where I'm comfortable.

  Andrea Anders

  Dedication, Years, Dancing

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• Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of aliveness that came from writing fiction. I'm still that way. My life is worth living when I've completed a good paragraph.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Writing, Way, Fiction

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• Length is usually intensity.
  Not time.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Length

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• I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

  Willem de Kooning

  Horse, Pain, Integrity

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• Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel. The author's screenwriting talent shines in this story of the earth's destructive power and humanity's moral depravity. The emerging maniacal personality, revealed in increasingly gruesome and venomous detail, rivals the Ripper.Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter. Brace yourself.

  William Bernhardt

  Earthquakes, San Francisco, Personality

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• I believe with religious intensity that good design is for everyone.

  Russel Wright

  Religious, Believe, Design

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• It is general knowledge for anyone interested in color that subdued value, intensity and hue make for quieter, less adventuresome interiors. Stronger approaches need stronger knowledge, more experience and flair.

  Van Day Truex

  Color, Design, Stronger

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• How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three determining factors, we are somewhat limited in the proper use of color in rooms.

  Van Day Truex

  Color, Design, Understanding

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• It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Dream, Creativity, Frustration

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• 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

  Art, Excellence, Close Relationship

  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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• My training centered on aerobic development, meaning I'd swim longer with less intensity during the majority of my practices. As I got older, I began more weight training, and my workouts went from long at a lower intensity to shorter and more intense.

  Amanda Beard

  Workout, Practice, Long

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.

  Cornel West

  Acceptance, Joy, Love Relationship

  "Like Foreigner, Cornel West Wants to Know What Love Is". www.chronicle.com. December 03, 2009.

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• Were all first loves like that? Somehow she doubted it; even now it struck her as being more real than anything she'd ever known. Sometimes it saddened her to think that she'd never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion; she'd learned all too well that love wasn't always enough.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, Passion, First Love

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