#intense

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent. ↗

— George Stigler

#appeal #became #become #economists #even

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#after #away #balance #competition #everyone

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

#constant #exhausted #five #i #i think

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. ↗

— Karl Abraham

#against #considerable #considerable number #intense #neurotic

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented. ↗

— John Green

#connection #experiences #fall #fell #fewer

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#curious #happen #hero #intensely #novel

Is he following? Can you have a flaming gay moment or something and check?" "Why do I have to be the flaming gay one? ↗

— Finn Marlowe

#funny #intense #m-m-romance #supernatural #funny

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through. ↗

— Arthur Boyd

#education #environment #get #hope #intense

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#am #any #conservatism #dislike #entertain