Duration And Intensity Quotes & Sayings

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. How bad a pain is depends on how intense it is and how long it lasts, but pain of the same intensity and duration are equally bad, whether felt by humans or animals. — Peter Singer

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity. — Aristotle.

Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909) — Pierre Janet

Experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration. — Thomas Hardy

God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the plenitude of man. — Victor Hugo

Life is a journey one that much better traveled with a companion by our side. Sometimes, we lose our companions along the way and then the journey becomes unbearable. You see, human beings are designed for many things, but loneliness isn't one of them. — Mary Alice

There are neither raptures, nor ecstasies, nor transports of bliss in the pleasures of the table; but they make up in duration what they lose in intensity, and are distinguished above all by the merit of inclining us towards all the other pleasures of life, or at least of consoling us for the loss of them. — Brillat-Savarin

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

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems ... — Martin Luther King Jr.

It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist. — William S. Burroughs

The attractive power of love is intensified proportional to the intensity of thoughts, perception of duration, and the perceived distance. — Debasish Mridha

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school. — Henry George

Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today. — John Donne

Duration and intensity are other common reasons we might regret behaviors. Very few people feel shame about using Facebook or other social media sites, but many people harbor private guilt about the number of hours they spend on those sites, or how often they feel compelled to check those sites when they shouldn't (while driving, while at work, while dining with family or friends). — Hugh Howey

With a movie, it's probably easier to sustain intensity and seriousness over the 90-minute duration. But in an open-world game it becomes exhausting, demotivating and even uninteresting for the player. — Hideo Kojima

We have three children. I've finally mastered Italian. I've personally overseen charities here and in Italy for all of them and still I'm the dog. However, it does not bother me in the least ... because you are the master of me. My mind, my body, my heart. Mel, you control all of it, all the time. — J.J. McAvoy

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God. — Ramakrishna

You ask for the impossible. You ask for the ruddy impossible. So if you love this girl as much as you say you do, you had better lover her very hard and make up in intensity what the relation will lack in duration and continuity. — Ernest Hemingway,

Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. — Lester B. Pearson

Five variables go into training or practice of any kind: frequency, intensity, duration, recovery, and reflection. — Eric Greitens

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created - created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. — John Schaar

His brothers were the type; he was the variation. — Henry Adams

Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [ ... ] — Ursula K. Le Guin

All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph Ellis so brilliantly points out, the name Egypt was employed by the composers of the Old Testament to denote Thebes in Lower Egypt. This was the city and region controlled by the adversaries of the Hyksos. It was considered a separate region, with different rulers, gods, customs, and politics. So, it was not the country of Egypt that Abraham visited, but Thebes within Egypt. — Michael Tsarion

ARE YOU LIVING THE LIFE THAT YOUR MAKER INTENDED?
Does your life lack the flavor, the crackle, the intensity you've hoped for?
Daily, we find ourselves bombarded by a thousand recommendations for extending the duration of our lives - exercise three times weekly! smoke in moderation! exchange sugar for saccharine! - but the truth is that time does not gain value by accruing. Time acquires value by being "spent," and spent freely. The longest life is not always the best one; in the marjority of cases, just the opposite.
If you are, in fact, living the life that your maker intended - it may be time to seek another maker. — John Wray

Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on. — Michael Meade

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it kick back. From the intensity and duration of thousands of those kicks over many years, we have formed a coherent theory of matter and forces, called the standard model, that currently agrees with all observations. — Victor J. Stenger

I'm just a young person trying to fulfil his potential and be the best he can be at what he wants to do ... I guess that's why people connect with the music. — Tinie Tempah