Phenomenon Quotes - Page 11

• Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

  Grayson Perry

  Gender, Our Family, Unconscious

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the main reasons I wrote The Sleep Revolution was to examine this ancient, essential, and mysterious phenomenon from all angles and to explore the ways we can use sleep to help regain control over our out-of-kilter lives.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sleep, Revolution, Helping

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in.

  Erich Fromm

  Fall, Today, Illusion

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon.

  Wilbur Ross

  Community, Quota, Demand

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• There is no doubt about it, Messi's clearly the best player in the world. He's a phenomenon who has already won everything, but is still hungry for more. His humbleness only makes him greater.

  Marco van Basten

  Player, Doubt, Messi

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• I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

  Joshua Leonard

  Luck, Proud, Witch

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• If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Nature, Law

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'The Pond inWinter'.

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• Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.

  Adam Fletcher

  Children, People, Perspective

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• The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

  Alan Watts

  People, Giving, Limits

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• NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Process, Latter, Existence

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

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• I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Believe, Teaching, School

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Stars, Memories, Eight

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• To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

  Jan Morris

  Students, Impossible, Affair

  Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.45, Faber & Faber

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• The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

  Lukas Foss

  Creative, Target, May

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• Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Life, Life Is, Wondrous

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• The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered his real nature, how can there be anywhere or anything separate from it?... ...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Nature, Real, Perception

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• What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• Dear friends, let us not forget the flesh of Christ which is in the flesh of refugees: their flesh is the flesh of Christ. It is also your task to direct all the institutions working in the area of forced migration to new forms of co-responsibility. This phenomenon is unfortunately constantly spreading. Hence your task is increasingly demanding in order to promote tangible responses of closeness, journeying with people, taking into account the different local backgrounds.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Order, People

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• Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?

  Scott Steiner

  Legends, Myth

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• Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.

  Julian Jaynes

  Essence, Justice, Consciousness

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Change, Nice, White

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• Cloud computing is actually a spectrum of things complementing one another and building on a foundation of sharing. Inherent dualities in the cloud computing phenomenon are spawning divergent strategies for cloud computing success. The public cloud, hybrid clouds, and private clouds now dot the landscape of IT based solutions. Because of that, the basic issues have moved from 'what is cloud' to 'how will cloud projects evolve'.

  Chris Howard

  Clouds, Issues, Foundation

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• The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Groups, Three

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• Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

  Victor Hugo

  Spirit, Moral, Rebellion

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country ... In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Iran, Insane

  "Iran: Ahmadinejad Delivers Controversial Speech At U.S. University". www.rferl.org. Iran: Ahmadinejad Delivers Controversial Speech At U.S. University.

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