Intense Quotes

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The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose. — Orison Swett Marden
Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some… — Plutarch
In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as… — Russell Simmons
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the… — John Burroughs
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed,… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge. — Albert Einstein
For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes… — Barack Obama
I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense… — Luis Walter Alvarez
The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form… — Benjamin Rush
You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you… — Sri Chinmoy
Simple design, intense content. — Edward Tufte
However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power… — Stephen R. Donaldson
But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can… — Stephen Jay Gould
When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition,… — Royden G. Derrick
The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from… — Pat Riley
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it. — Neil Simon
It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an… — Eva Ibbotson
Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as… — Sylvia Townsend Warner

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