“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 final product becomes a passionate reflection of all that was revealed to me about my subjects during intense moments of personal clarity.” MomentsSubjectsProductsReflectionFinalsPassionateIntenseClarityRevelationsIntense Moments Author:Michael Bell
“The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a physical verity. We do truthfully experience our lives differently because our bodies are different. It is in what we do with our experience that we are the same. We feel, absorb and examine with the same intensity, and intense experience honestly examined informs the art of both sexes equally. ... The power of imagination illuminates all human lives in common.” MenFeelsHumansArtDifferentFactsBodyPoliticalSexImaginationDifferencesCommonOur LivesSubjectsMen And WomenDefinitionsHonestlyIntenseHuman LifeIntensityPower Of ImaginationDifferences Between Man And Woman Author:Anne Truitt
“Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.” SubjectsIntellectualIntenseFascinatedSubmitUrbanAlienationAnthropologyExoticAnthropologistsRepulsion Author:Susan Sontag
“The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense faith and experience.” PersonsSubjectsTasksTransformationAimIntensePreaching Author:Halford Luccock
“It gets super dark. I did a bunch of intense indie movies when I was starting out in my career and I was always in a bad mood because, when you're dealing with the subject matter of losing your baby, getting raped and all that stuff, it's not fun to go through. You really have to go there.” MatterFunStuffDarkCareersSubjectsBabyLosingStartingMoodIntenseBunchSubject MatterStarting OutBad MoodIndie Movie Author:Busy Philipps