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“Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.”

“I deeply believe that everything is relative. We need the bad to appreciate the good, and vice versa. We need something unexpected to happen in order for us to realize that everything was expected. It's our relation to those things that we are able to decide how we feel and the level of intensity of those feelings. Such is relativity”

Needs Feels Believe Feelings Happens Able Order Realizing Levels Appreciate Relation Vices Expected Unexpected Intensity Relative Vice Versa Relativity Something Unexpected

Author:Shania Twain

“The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.”

Problem Black White Violence Hatred Prejudice Majority Ashamed Intensity Black History

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn't give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless.”

Inspirational Giving Seems Joy Sex Alive Hot Ecstasy Intensity Meaningless Thrill Soar Crave Meaning Life

Book:A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

“Christ said: Blessed are the peace-makers, not blessed are the peace-sayers. If the world fell into the hands of totalitarian factions, there is still the possibility that they might fight amongst themselves. Surrender to them would not encourage the kingdom of peace and love - and those that desire it, or with passionate intensity permit it, know not what they do.”

Ifs Knows World Said Stills War Hands Might Desire Fighting Peace Christ Possibility And Love Blessed Passionate Surrender Kingdoms Makers Permit Intensity Factions Peace And Love

Author:Michael Novak

“I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.”

Turns Lost Cities Wonder Morning Fans Media Football Soccer Intensity Supporter Monday Manchester Monday Morning Morning After Manchester City

Author:Alex Ferguson

“There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere to the living cells.”

Life Matter Earth Growth Clear Environment Rocks Materials Birth Surface Cells Atmosphere Distinction Intensity Rebirth Hierarchy

Book:The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth

Source: The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth

“The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.”

Source: Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth

“The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year. . . . A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.”

Years Ideas Past Politics Left Party Class Years Ago Passionate Educated Tea Intensity Supporter Shifting Over The Past Tea Party Obama Supporters

Author:David Brooks

“My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.”

“It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.”

Should Heart Winning Loss Gains Guilt Forgotten Deeper Contrary Intensity Perdition

Book:Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing

Source: Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing

“Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day.”

Play Running Hills Tennis Swim Intensity Workout Surfing Volleyball Intervals

Author:Bethany Hamilton

“Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.”

Men World Enough History Fire Intensity Zeal

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.”

Thinking Mean Hard Choices Risk Serious Bears Consequence Recognition Alternatives Life And Death Intensity Seriousness Life Means Great Risk Serious Life

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?”

Life Mind Mean Faces Blind Instinct Intensity

Book:Herzog

Source: Herzog

“Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people”

Source: The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9

“Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.”

Enjoy Simple Meditation Cups Tea Intensity Simple Things Cups Of Tea Deep Meditation

Author:Rajneesh

“We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.”

Dies Born Differences Intensity Born To Die

Author:Gina Lollobrigida

“Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.”

Men Mean Whole Age Emotion Youth Poet Appropriate Mature Intensity

Author:T. S. Eliot

“As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.”

Quality Virtue Personality Habit Increase Intensity Quantity Quality Of Life

Author:Alexis Carrel

“Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.”

Loses Gains Intelligence Chains Intensity Lucidity

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.”

Shows Social Groups Conditions Members Patterns Crowds Destructive Friendly Intensity Aggressive Interaction Frequency Crowded Social Interaction

Book:tha naked ape

Source: tha naked ape

“Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.”

Men Matter Desire Courses Appeals Unconscious Poetry Is Intensity Completeness Universality

Book:The Lyric: An Essay

Source: The Lyric: An Essay

“I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Long Doe Matter Differences Answers Practice Equal Intensity Sincerity Dedication

Author:Huston Smith

“There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.”

Doe Nature Hours Effort Color Circumstances Approach Climate Mortals Intensity Artificial Sunlight Exhibits Hue Pigment Living Color

Book:Modern Painters ...: pt. 1-2. Of general principles, and Of truth. 5th ed

Source: Modern Painters ...: pt. 1-2. Of general principles, and Of truth. 5th ed

“The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.”

“Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.”

Littles Feelings Certain Universe Essence Regard Depth Mysticism Intensity

Book:Mysticism and Logic

Source: Mysticism and Logic

“Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.”

Way Done Common Greater Materials Genius Ordinary Faculty Intensity Astonishing Refined

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.”

Voice Roles Overwhelming Intensity Niche Theatrical

Author:Placido Domingo

“I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.”

Want Writing Firsts Made Book Country Able Film Fighting Pleasure Novel Campaigns Range Intensity Recalls

Author:Alastair Campbell

“There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.”

Giving Attention Compliment Intensity Flooding

Author:Rose Byrne

“Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.”

Sometimes Television Mass Intensity Sheer Repetition Liberating Grind

Author:Simon Baker

“The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.”

Higher Seeking Regions Intensity Atoms Moths Lasers

Author:Steven Chu

“And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.”

Ifs Looks Missing Intensity

Author:Charles S. Dutton

“People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.”

People Thinking Want Ideas Hard Winning Gold Difficulty Competition Lovely No Idea Intensity Medal Gold Medals

Author:Jessica Ennis

“Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.”

Sometimes Pay Attention Emotional Scripts Speed Pay Attention Guts Intensity

Author:Douglas Booth

“Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.”

Want Ends Film Used Emotion Emotional Music Is Credit Intensity Cliche Evoke

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.”

Feels Trying Firsts Done Wanted Song Stuff Figures Intensity

Author:Tom Araya

“You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.”

Play Energy Levels Ice Opposition Hockey Intensity Energy Levels

Author:Alain Vigneault

“My eyes are so big that, weirdly, I feel like an alien if my eyelashes don't match their intensity. I like to curl my lashes to the point where they're sticking straight up and then put on a ton of mascara!”

Ifs Feels Bigs Eye Aliens Intensity Curls Lashes Eyelashes Straight Up Mascara

Author:Sarah Hyland

“China has adopted and is implementing its national climate change program. This includes mandatory national targets for reducing energy intensity and discharge of major pollutants and increasing forest coverage and the share of renewable energy for the period of 2005 through 2010.”

Energy Share Periods Majors Program Climate Climate Change China Forests Target Intensity Adopted Reducing Coverage Renewable Energy Discharge Implementing

Author:Hu Jintao

“The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.”

Years Wells Doe Lasts Effects Painting Ten Intensity Fifteen Fifteen Years

Author:Donald Judd

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