“Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.” FactsLossGriefKnownTelevisionPeriodsDramaMovedChaosIntenseNarrativeInternalsFriendlyChaoticStaticMoved On Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.” IfsThinkingGivingWritingFirstsBookProblemAttentionHappenedSubjectsSeriousNeededPeriodsSolutionsIntenseClarityRevelationsConcentrationContemplatingSubconsciousDeliberateIncubation Author:Bertrand Russell
“The mystical kundalini is very different. It is a much more intense transformative energy which, when used, allows a person to make tremendous spiritual leaps in a short period of time.” PersonsDifferentSpiritualUsedEnergyBuddhismPeriodsIntenseLeapMystical Author:Frederick Lenz
“Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.” WellsPeriodsIntense Author:Zoe Kazan
“My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply.” ThinkingKnowsWellsLongMotherPayAttentionCareersFocusPeriodsIntenseLong Periods Of TimeProfessional Career Author:David Plotz
“I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.” IdeasUsedChurchReligiousGreaterStupidPeriodsConceptsFilledTerrorIntenseMinistersEverlastingExtinctionVisitingSixteenNever EndingBanquetsEverlasting Life Book:East Side Story: A Novel Source: East Side Story: A Novel
“We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work” ShouldLongRealityClassMiddlePeriodsPressureIntenseAssumptionMiddle ClassBargains Author:James Fallows
“Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.” KnowsWorldSelfPeriodsTradeTerroristIntenseNovelistsExaminationLoathingSelf LoathingTerrorist AttacksWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterSelf-examination Author:Jay McInerney
“Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.” CompanyPeriodsMajorsResourcesInnovationFinancialIntensePullingDistressProtective Author:Peter Senge
“The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.” Has BeensStatesReligionBeliefGreaterPeriodsProfoundAffairIntenseCrueltyDogmaticAnti ReligiousMorality And ReligionReligious Dogma Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; This is a occupancy for people greedy for life - human life is not enough.” PeopleYearsHumansEnoughLife IsUsedMonthsPeriodsMountainIntenseUsed To BeHuman LifeGreedy Author:Jerzy Kukuczka
“The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses...While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the "old," pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.” Has BeensPastForceNumbersHalfTechnologyEconomyDoubtEconomicCenturyReturnPeriodsRootsTransformationInnovationRaisesTrainDecadesIntenseTendenciesDramaticNo DoubtProductiveYieldEfficiencyOver The PastNew TechnologyCumulative Author:Alan Greenspan
“I knew that this was something that was going to be an intense experience, just from the way I typically approach my work. I did not take the fact that I was going to portray a soldier lightly. It was so very important to me that I came across as believable and honest and truthful. I wanted to be able to convey the psychology behind the choice of leaving home for an extended period of time, knowing that you may never come back while still being a devoted parent.” WayMayStillsImportantFactsHomeAbleWantedChoicesParentBehindsKnowingPsychologyHonestPeriodsApproachLeavingSoldierIntenseTruthfulDevotedBelievableLeaving Home Author:Michelle Monaghan
“Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.” BrokenPeriodsHistoricalIntenseErasCynicismIdealismRough Times Author:Lauren Groff
“I don't know about "dream role." I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.” PeopleKnowsPlayDreamFilmRolesPeriodsHappeningsIntenseDramaticStakesStressedStressed Out Author:Clea DuVall