Intensity Quotes
554 quotes by 480 authors
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An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I…
— Sebastian Horsley
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Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the…
— Anthony Storr
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is…
— Grant Wood
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Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests…
— Ethan Zuckerman
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So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into…
— William Barclay
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Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself;…
— James Gould Cozzens
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Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will…
— Noam Chomsky
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...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.
— Carlos Castaneda
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Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.
— Wynton Marsalis
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Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.
— Jim Rohn
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Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create…
— Abram Hoffer
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The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests…
— Stephen Johnson Field
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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…
— Bill Brandt
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She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.
— Bill Loguidice
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How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three determining factors, we…
— Van Day Truex
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It is general knowledge for anyone interested in color that subdued value, intensity and hue make for quieter, less adventuresome interiors. Stronger approaches need stronger…
— Van Day Truex
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