Intensity Quotes - Page 31

• Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

  Eric Hoffer

  Moving, Self Confidence, Skills

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Literature, Artistic

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.51, Univ of California Press

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• Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?

  Eli Siegel

  Artist, Color, Serenity

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• My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity.

  Wolfman Jack

  Levels, Existence

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• I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world."

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Letting Go, Expectations, Acting

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• To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Luck, Energy

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• ...Be holy men and women! Do not forget that the fruits of the apostolate depend on the depth of the spiritual life, on the intensity of prayer, of continual formation and sincere adhesion to the directives of the Church.

  Pope John Paul II

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

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• Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Loneliness, Lightning, Connections

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• When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.

  Parul Sehgal

  Jealous, People, Looks

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• By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

  Rollo May

  Creativity, Names, Consciousness

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes into a series of lovely observations about the world, but you've got to find the story.

  Lenny Abrahamson

  Focus, Lovely, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

  Stephen Fry

  Beauty, Depression, Laughter

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.93, Random House

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• Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Love Is, Giving

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• What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell.

  Tony Robbins

  Emotional, Heaven, Inner Strength

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 07, 2011

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• Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.

  Warsan Shire

  People, Quality, Problem

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• The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Real, Views

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• With the same intensity that the Father loves Jesus, He loves you.

  Mike Bickle

  Jesus, Father, Love You

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• The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Degrees, Resistance

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.33, New World Library

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