Intensity Quotes

"My candle burns at both ends;It will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—It gives a lovely light!"

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I make love with a focus and intensity that most people reserve for sleep."

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

"I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)"

Eve Ensler

"In the long run, even a marathon looks like a sprint. This is how I can love with such Roger Bannisteresque intensity."

Jarod Kintz

"the intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write."

Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

"There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a father, he was at times grateful for that missing intensity, but as a man who liked to surprise his wife with flowers, it baffled him. Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them. He'd never seen Kim and J.P. kiss, let alone argue."

Stewart O'Nan, Songs for the Missing

"There is no Space or TimeOnly intensity, And tame thingsHave no immensity"

Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy

"There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity."

Brittany Burgunder

"You are theremedy of intensityi need in my life, tospin me out of themiserable monotonyof working on life'sdaily assemblylines."

Curtis Tyrone Jones

"The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus."

Robert Greene, Mastery

"You can discover your calling through the eyes of others"

Sunday Adelaja

"You need focus and concentration to be effective in life"

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"The amount of value produced at a certain period depends on the level of focus used to attain it"

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"To regain your lost years, you must make sure that any activity targeted at attaining your goal must be done with the qualities of intensity, speed and focus"

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"Always take an inventory of your life"

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"Time wasters are life wasters"

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"Purposefully dedicating time into developing yourself is one of the keys to being effective in life"

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"Use your resources wisely and spend quality time on developing your resources"

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"Always have a list of what you want to achieve in life"

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"Be strategic and purposeful in whatever you do"

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"Combine your calling with your passion to achieve great results"

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"Your calling is concealed in you and has to be discovered by you alone"

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"Your calling is buried in your background and life experience"

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"You need speed to regain your lost years"

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"Your calling should bless and affect the lives of others for good"

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"You need to do an inventory of yourself to discover your calling and purpose"

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"Your calling is in what you often think about"

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"Your destiny is connected with your calling"

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"You need intensity to be quick"

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"If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it"

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"You have to be purposeful and intense to reclaim your lost years"

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"Your intensity increases your productivity"

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"Your intensity increases your net worth"

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"When you are intense, you will do things persistently and with speed"

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"You need to understand the principle of intensity to reclaim time"

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"Intensity is the extreme application of force and strength"

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"Learn to do everything with speed to be efficient and effective"

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"Speed is the ability to take a decision in a few seconds"

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"You don’t need any confirmation if you are already in the spirit"

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"The doctrine of waiting for confirmation is one of the greatest time killers"

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"Throw away the doctrine of waiting for confirmation"

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"I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be."

Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl

"Every mental process, or every mental action, that takes place in our wide-awake consciousness will, if it has depth of feeling or intensity, enter the unconscious field, and after it has developed itself according to the line of its original nature, will return to the conscious side of the mind."

Christian D. Larson

"I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it."

Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

"Have you seen what wolves do to their prey? But they do mate for life."

Donna Lynn Hope

"Some people confuse intensity for passion and challenge for attraction."

Donna Lynn Hope

"A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief."

William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

"The height of your achievements is determined by the depth of your self-belief, the strength of your resolve and the intensity of your efforts."

Roopleen

"Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends."

Osho, And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen

"All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing."

Pietros Maneos

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