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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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• 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

  Missing, Looks, Ifs

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• I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.

  Tom Araya

  Song, Trying, Done

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• The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

  Steven Chu

  Atoms, Lasers, Moths

  "Lasers Slow Atom for Scrutiny". The New York Times, July 13, 1986.

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• Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

  Placido Domingo

  Voice, Roles, Niche

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• Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

  John Drinkwater

  Men, Desire, Matter

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.35, Library of Alexandria

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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

  Fragility, World, Terrible

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• I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

  Jim Dine

  Thinking, Dine In, Able

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• Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

  Ashley Judd

  Important, Quality, Three

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• The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

  Marya Mannes

  Dream, Romantic Love, Reality

  Marya Mannes (1971). “Out of my time”

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• Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Long, Favors, Pay

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

  Steve Lacy

  Song, Voice, Elements

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

  Nina Berberova

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• Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e. companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

  Naveen Jain

  Opportunity, Focus, Entrepreneur

  "10 Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2011.

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• Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.

  John Jay Chapman

  Men, Self, Age

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• There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less chance your mind has to dwell on the emotional. This is sheer intensity.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Emotional

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• Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Death, Dying, Liberty

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• Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

  Tim Ferriss

  Work, Learning, Fighting

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• Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

  Brett Hoebel

  Training, Structure, Crosses

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• Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

  Joanne Woodward

  Becoming, Young

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• Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.

  Naomi Klein

  Stress, Cities, Numbers

  Naomi Klein (2014). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.436, Penguin UK

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• What we lack is intensity of life.

  Carl Jung

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

  Fernando Pessoa

  Unique, People, Lasts

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• When you yearn for God with intensity, He will come to you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

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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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