Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Intensity is the price of excellence."
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Intensity
109 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity."
Robert Monroe
Author
"The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"When you yearn for God with intensity, He will come to you."
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy."
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"CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity."
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"Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity."
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"My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity."
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"It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time."
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"The excellence of every Art is its intensity."
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"...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad."
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"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."
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"What we lack is intensity of life."
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"No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity."
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"Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity."
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"The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident."
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"Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it."
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"I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light."
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"Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity."
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"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
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"Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity."
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"In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity."
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"Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act."
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"Love is like pancreatitis; it starts off slow, then builds in intensity until you become consumed and develop violent cramps."
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"Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power."
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