Phenomenon Quotes - Page 18

• Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.

  Jeff Sharlet

  Religious, Goal, Conservative

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's such a phenomenon for a hip-hop artist to fully embrace his Christian roots and his faith. And that becomes something that people almost need you to justify.

  LeCrae

  Christian, Artist, Roots

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Many hunters and professional soldiers (especially snipers) have remarked how important it is during a stalk to not directly stare or even think hard about your quarry, else he will often sense it. While nobody can adequately explain it, this phenomenon has been noticed by so many people that its truth cannon be questioned

  Kenneth W. Royce

  Gun, Thinking, People

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• I think there have been so many documentaries about pop stars, made by pop stars. It's a new phenomenon. People making these movies where they praise themselves and show their own weaknesses. it's all designed to make you love them even more.

  Judd Apatow

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "Judd Apatow Talks ‘Popstar’, Letting The Lonely Island Do Their Thing, and More". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. June 4, 2016.

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• I missed out on the Spice Girls. I missed out on all those big pop phenomenon and missed out even on the Madonna records. It's okay, cuz I'm playing catch-up on everything now.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Spices, Records

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• Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon. The fact is, we can do just about anything. There is no difficulty, wherever you are, in finding groups that are working hard on things that concern you.

  Noam Chomsky

  Groups, Facts, Privilege

  Interview with David Barsamian, May 1, 2004.

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• Well, I believe that "thinking" is just as real a phenomenon in the world as anything else, and just as worthy of exploration. Maybe even more? So writing about "thought" to me is like writing about a tree or anything else real.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Real, Believe, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will provide the kind of dynamic knowledge base that can assist the challenges of tomorrow (involving both fundamental and extended information).

  Anthony Braxton

  Challenges, Fundamentals, Information

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• 'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.

  Nathan Lane

  Grateful, Once In A Lifetime, Kind

  "‘The Producers' Nathan Lane: On His Buddy Broderick, Mel Brooks and the Joys of Being an Honorary Jew". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• Om is a living phenomenon and it has its own mood. Depending on its mood the meaning will be revealed to you.

  Amit Ray

  Mood

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• It seems evident that everything which exists in nature, is natural, no matter how simple or complicated a phenomenon it is; and on no occasion can the so-called 'supernatural' be anything else than a completely natural law, though it may, at the moment, be above and beyond the present understanding.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Simple, Law, Understanding

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• A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon. He is all light, and his whole life is full of fragrance and flowers. The mechanical man lives in dark holes, dirty holes. He does not know the world of light; he is like a blind man. The man of watchfulness is really the man who has eyes.

  Rajneesh

  Dirty, Flower, Eye

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• Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ignorant, Force, Forces Of Nature

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• The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.

  Anne Applebaum

  Honesty, Hard Work, Responsibility

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• Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.

  Georg Solti

  Believe, Numbers, World

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• What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man's emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Encounters, Entering

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.219, eBookIt.com

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• As you are now you are just a liquid phenomenon, changing every moment, nothing stable. Really you cannot claim any "I" -- you don't have one. You are many "I"s just in a flow, a riverlike flow. You are a crowd, not an individual yet. But meditation can make you an individual.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Liquid, Crowds

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• God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.

  Rajneesh

  House, Guests, Way

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• Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Source, Masters, All Things

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.73, Fig

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• Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.

  Clayton Christensen

  Progress, Disruption, Tendencies

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Hands, Tools

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• I don't know if it's something that we as a species are hardwired for or if it's more of a contemporary phenomenon related to technology and rapid dissemination of data. I did know that whatever its cause or nature, I wanted to interrogate this phenomenon. But the only way for me to do that, the only tool I have to dissect it with, is a fictional narrative.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Technology, Data, Tools

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Country, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade - they didn't particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test, and to explore them, with respect to Star Wars, I think casts light not just on the saga of our time, but also on everything about our culture.

  Cass Sunstein

  Stars, War, Thinking

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments as the decades went by. They produced the wealth and rising income that resulted in the emergence of a phenomenon completely new to human history: a self-supporting and educated middle class that grew more and more as they lower classes bettered their economic well-being.

  Richard Ebeling

  Class, Creating, Self

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