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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• 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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• 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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• Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Jazz

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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 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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• Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivation

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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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• The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will.

  Walter Russell

  Secret, Desire, Body

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• People happy in love have an air of intensity.

  Stendhal

  Love, Heart, Air

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• I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

  Nina Berberova

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• 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

  Photographer, Environment, Individual

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

  Joanne Woodward

  Becoming, Young

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• Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.

  Rick Renzi

  Fighting, Fire, Waste

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• De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

  Christopher Meloni

  Hero, Levels, Tvs

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• I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

  Annie Proulx

  Hair, Play, Balance

  "Exclusive PJH Interview: At close range with Annie Proulx". Interview with Matthew Testa, planetjh.com. December 7, 2005.

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• You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Games, Stay Positive, Trying

  "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed" By Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

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• Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Simple, Meditation, Tea

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

  Bill Loguidice

  Fitness, Work Out, Length

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• Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Blood, World, Anarchy

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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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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