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• The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Osbert Sitwell (1950). “Noble essences: a book of characters”

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• intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Heart, Wrestling

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• I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Prayer, Temperature

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Sermons on the Psalms”

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• The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance,
  some form of unconscious resistance to what is.
  On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement.
  The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Thinking

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• All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.

  Alain LeRoy Locke

  Spiritual, Epic, Class

  Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title

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• Intensity builds immensity

  Kevin Levrone

  Workout, Bodybuilding, Immensity

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• Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Stronger, Famous Basketball

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• With enough emotional intensity and repetition, our nervous systems experience something as real, even if it hasn't occurred yet.

  Tony Robbins

  Real, Inspirational Life, Emotional

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

  Pete Sampras

  Years, Tennis, Looks

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• Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd

  Mean, Men, Holiness

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• Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat.

  Robert Collier

  Men, Overwhelming Desire, Air

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• We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.

  Rollo May

  Commitment, Creativity, Dedication

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• Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then comparable to the signal strength noted on a receiver at a given locality. Intensity, like signal strength, will generally fall off with distance from the source; it will also depend on local conditions at the point of observation, and to some extent on the conditions along the path from source to that point.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Distance, Fall, Science

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• Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it kick back. From the intensity and duration of thousands of those kicks over many years, we have formed a coherent theory of matter and forces, called the standard model, that currently agrees with all observations.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Science, Reality, Agreement

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Science, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.46, Booklassic

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• Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.

  Rajneesh

  Passion, Next, Moments

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• I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Knives, Canvas

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• Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding-a physical horror that bonds us ever tighter to all those who have partaken. The intensity of the experience helps to widen the gulf between us and those who have not shared.

  Clive Barker

  Pain, Taken, Important

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• What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?

  Jacob Needleman

  Roles, Tools, Purpose

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• What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Player, Effort

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• The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival

  Anson Dorrance

  Volleyball, Athlete, Thinking

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• Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Motivational, Hard Work, Needs

  "What Does A Strong Life Look Like?" by Marcus Buckingham, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge of the positions and intensities of the spectra does not suffice for the determination of the structure. The phases with which the diffracted waves vibrate relative to one another enter in an essential way. To determine a crystal structure on the atomic scale, one must know the phase differences between the different interference spots on the photographic plate, and this task may certainly prove to be rather difficult.

  Max von Laue

  Determination, Knowledge, Science

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• The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.

  Dante Alighieri

  Love, Spiritual, Mirrors

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• "The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.

  Dante Alighieri

  Spiritual, Mirrors, Light

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