Phenomenon Quotes - Page 2

• The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Powerful, Computer, Appeals

  "The Physicist" by Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 1995.

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• What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to gratitude, and that if you consciously take note of what is good in your life, quantifiable benefits happen.

  Deborah Norville

  Gratitude, Grateful, Benefits

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• As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

  Jock Sturges

  Shame

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. Macrh 4, 1998.

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• The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

  James Taylor

  Sides, Ordinary, Lucky

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.

  Jane Pauley

  Thinking, Way, Kind

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• I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events.

  Steven Pinker

  Philosophy, Thinking, Ideas

  "Proud atheists". Interview with Steve Paulson, www.salon.com. October 15, 2007.

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• Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

  William Shatner

  Stars, Impossible, Imagine

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• Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

  James Hillman

  Depression, Dysfunction, Cold

  "The Soul Of Winter: A Call To Deepen" by Dr. Judith Rich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2009.

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• Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Animal, Unique, World

  Noam Chomsky (2006). “Language and Mind”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

  Daniel Dennett

  Successful, Design, Evolution

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• There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Unique, Individuality, Admiration And Respect

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• First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

  Alexei Sayle

  Buffets, Eras, Firsts

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• The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

  Thomas Sowell

  Way, Economy, Explanation

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.97, Basic Books

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• Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

  David Cameron

  Fall, Taken, Self

  "David Cameron's EU speech - full text". www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Flower, Tree

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• 'Twilight' is a phenomenon. And I'm so happy it's all captured on film. It's going to be something I'll always look back on, for sure.

  Ashley Greene

  Twilight, Looks, Film

  Interview With Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Inspirational Education, Individual, Educated

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• What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.

  James Surowiecki

  Mean, Competition, Profit Margin

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• It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

  Heinrich Heine

  Girl, Men, Common

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• Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

  Edmund Husserl

  Names, Phenomenology, Firsts

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

  John Travolta

  Hard

  People Magazine Interview, people.com. December 26, 1994.

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• Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

  Blair Underwood

  Sex, Women, Successful

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• It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Giving Up, Years, People

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• I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Two, People, Example

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• It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.

  Vladimir Putin

  Moving, Years, People

  Putin Q&A: Full Transcript, content.time.com. 2007.

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