Intensives

Long-term intensives are high in the roles of innovator, producer, monitor, and facilitator and fall nearer the mean on the roles of mentor and director. ❋ Bernard M. Bass (2008)

Effective leaders are typed as masters, conceptual producers, aggressive achievers, peaceful team builders, long-term intensives, and open adaptives. ❋ Bernard M. Bass (2008)

They have critique groups, they can pay for critiques, they can read books, they may have a wide circle of literate friends, and they may, in fact, already be quite accomplished and as intelligent about writing as the editors who offer "intensives" at the conferences. ❋ Editorial Anonymous (2009)

Devotees who are invited into these "intensives" are expected to comply with whatever Adi Da asks them to do.

He had made his ascent by buying "intensives" – bundled hours of auditing, at a discount rate. ❋ Unknown (2011)

When I found the BONI intensives, I found out what that was. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I wear several hats, actually, but the two most notable ones are those of independent book editor (going on fifteen years since I first “hung out my shingle”) and co-creator/Editorial Director of the Writing the Breakout Novel weeklong intensives, with literary agent Donald Maass. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is a curious paradox that the use of such intensifiers (also called intensives) seems to have the opposite effect to what is intended. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Although already certified, many yoga teachers opt to take the Anusara yoga teacher training or the Anusara yoga intensives required before taking the teacher training in part because of the added rigor the system involves, in part because of the community, and in part because the Anusara template succeeds elegantly in simplifying the principles of alignment in postures, while, oddly, at the same time deepening them. ❋ Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith (2010)

For more information about satsangs, intensives, and retreats with Adyashanti, please visit our web site, www. zen-satsang.org, or write to: ❋ Unknown (2010)

These days in the West, we have weekend enlightenment intensives promising realization by Sunday night or your money back. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When I teach yoga classes and intensives, I see many students look around for guidance and some compare themselves and then feel bad. ❋ Hillary Rubin (2010)

An alternative solution would be to raise the minimum wage, especially for farm workers, while simultaneously protecting small farms against being gobbled up against their will by agribusiness AND changing farm subsidies to encourage the production of fruits and vegetables (particularly organics and other labor intensives) instead of grains for expensive/inefficient biofuels and the meat lobby. ❋ Maggie Jochild (2007)

After a lunch of pounding coffee and [hash browns], Tony was ready to work with [intense intensity] for the [remainder] of the day. ❋ BabyBuster (2008)

[Johnny] was intensed by [Julie's] proud [breast]. ❋ Mcpherson (2007)

That intenser just [spiked] [the volleyball] on that four-year [old girl's] face ❋ Gene Hackman (2006)

taylor: [so what'd] you think of the two [ashleys] making out last night? [marc]: it was fuckin INTENSE!! ❋ The Storm Drains (2009)

He [scoops] his [ice cream] with [intensity]. ❋ Yebeka (1999)

[Kel]: "[INTENSE]!" ❋ Kel & Anna (2003)

a.Damn. That fight was intense. b.That test was so intense. c.Bob: yeah Sally: [uh huh]........ Bob: intense. d.That was intense like [the circus]. OR That was intense [like camping]. ❋ C07 (2005)

Al: "Dude, I just watched [the Lord of the Rings]: The Two Towers and [Smokey and the Bandit] [back to back]." Mike: "Intense." ❋ Roasted Chicken Recipe (2009)

Man that was some intense [heat] back there. That was [quite the] intense [young man]. ❋ Alex Pipe (2004)

[Judging] [a book] by its [cover] is intensical. ❋ Ladeedddhi (2009)