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  • I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.

    Kids   Trying   Needs  
    "What I've Learned: Dustin Hoffman" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2007.
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 07, 2011
  • I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person.

    Real   Passion   People  
    Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.104, Pan Macmillan
  • When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.

    Past   Self   Different  
    Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.537, Modern Library
  • When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.

    Jealous   People   Looks  
  • I don't really believe in cardio. I train with a very high intensity, which in turn gives it an aerobic effect. I like to use anaerobic resistance type movements or exercises. I don't believe in sitting on a Stairmaster or a bike for hours, that's just not me.

    Source: www.awesome-body.club
  • Truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon facts.

    Neville Goddard (2015). “Be What You Wish”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
  • There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.

    Firefly   Echoes   Light  
    Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.46, Vintage
  • God created us so that the joy He has in Himself might be ours. God doesn't simply think about Himself or talk to Himself. He enjoys Himself! He celebrates with infinite and eternal intensity the beauty of who He is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And we've been created to join the party!

  • The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

    Levels   Merit   Pioneers  
    George Sarton (1993). “Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.”, p.8, Courier Corporation
  • The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

    Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”
  • As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

    Men   Feelings   Quiet  
  • Find people who love you unconditionally, surround yourself with them, and bring them the same level of intensity.

    FaceBook post by Sean Stephenson from Feb 08, 2011
  • The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.

    Kids   Reality   Age  
    Walt Mueller (1999). “Understanding Today's Youth Culture”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

    Light   Intensity   Bulbs  
  • He's looking at me as if the whole world waits for my next breath, with an intensity that makes my heart pound and my palms sweat and then he smiles, a sweet curve of his mouth, and my breath catches, but then I freeze because there is something about it, something beyond it that I know, that makes my mind go blank with fear and pain.

    Sweet   Pain   Heart  
    Elizabeth Scott (2011). “As I Wake”, p.42, Penguin
  • Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.36, Vintage
  • The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.

  • To reach beyond what you are you must ignore the rules and fashions of the day. Or perhaps better yet cast them way out in your peripheral vision where you can still see them but only as a vague reference point. This doesn’t mean that all the rules are gone. It might mean that you adopt a far tighter code of conduct to ensure the necessary level of intensity and adventure.

  • What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you. I wanted to find a way to unlock the intensity of that, to recreate that unique perspective, first for the hundreds of people who attended the concert, and eventually for a much larger online audience.

  • I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

    John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.44, Penguin
  • Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

    Jazz   Intensity  
  • 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.

    "10 Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2011.
  • One intense hour is worth a dreamy day.

    Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial
  • Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

    Happy   Art   Feelings  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.10, Princeton University Press
  • 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

    Mean   Men   Holiness  
  • Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

  • You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted something from me, as though you’d wanted it for a long time. No one had ever looked at me like that before, with that kind of intensity. It unsettled me, surprised me, I guess. Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.

    Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.
  • Paper Covers Rock is dazzling in its intensity and intelligence, spell-binding in its terrible beauty.

    Rocks   Paper   Intensity  
  • Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

    Might   Alive   Divine  
    Roberto Calasso (2010). “Literature and the Gods”, p.34, Vintage
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