#intensity

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. ↗

— Annie Proulx

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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments. ↗

— John Higgins

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I always liked the intensity of the recording. ↗

— Chris Bailey

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

— Steven Chu

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People happy in love have an air of intensity. ↗

— Stendhal

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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. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. ↗

— Philip Levine

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But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. ↗

— Philip Levine

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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity. ↗

— Karl Malone

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