Phenomenon Quotes - Page 22

• Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.

  Lee Krasner

  Mean, Men, Painting

  Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press

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• True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Heart, Thinking

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• Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.

  Rosser Reeves

  Simple, Advertising, Cry

  Rosser Reeves (1961). “Reality in Advertising”, p.129, BookBaby

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• How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in the fact that I derive satisfaction from seeking to reveal the concealed meaning of a position by means of maneuvering play and therefore I do not wish to see this satisfaction curtailed by a banal, more or less fortuitous decision. Naturally, this phenomenon is played out beneath the threshold of consciousness. The waking consciousness will, of course, in each individual case, give preference to the more rapid means of deciding the game.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Moving, Mean, Games

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• As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

  Red Smith

  Baseball, Texas, Firsts

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• We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization

  Peter L. Berger

  Culture, Globalization, Emergence

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• Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

  Lawrence Summers

  Globalization, Contagion

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• My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

  Tom Robbins

  Adventure, Life Is, Solitary

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.28, Bantam

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• Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Mean, Community, Identity

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• How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/'woo'], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education created a market catered for by cheap dailies and weeklies, so the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophy, Taken, Science

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• The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident (though there is a great deal of it) to have contributed anything of permanent value to the storehouse of human thought.

  Peter Medawar

  Philosophical, Men, Squares

  "Review of Teilhard de Chardin's 'The Phenomenon of Man'". "Mind", Vol 70, pp. 99-105, 1961.

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• Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in the past. Scientists on the same road may be expected to arrive at the same destination, often not far apart.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Past, Discovery

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.49, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Half, Poet, Potency

  Yehudi Menuhin (1986). “Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist”, Vintage

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• Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon

  Marc Andreessen

  Suicide, Example, Borders

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• Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

  Colleen McCullough

  Age, Ominous, Five

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.72, Head of Zeus

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• Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

  John Keegan

  Men, Killing Others, Long

  "John Keegan: A History of Warfare". "Booknotes" with Brian Lamb, booknotes.org. May 8, 1994.

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• Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs.

  Louis Agassiz

  Simple, Reality, Thinking

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• From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Perspective, World, Representation

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.51, Princeton University Press

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• It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.

  Edwin Thompson Jaynes

  Opposites, Probability Theory, Use

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• All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of leaping among persons, as it does at parties and celebratory gatherings. Storytelling always begets storytelling. It is difficult to watch others at play without wanting to join them. This is not only a human phenomenon, for researchers have consistently noted that animals at play are often imitated by other animals. So wherever it is possible to initiate a playful activity, it will have a good chance of replicating itself through other parts of the system.

  Joseph Rusling Meeker

  Party, Animal, Play

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• Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

  Ian Buruma

  War, Angel, May

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• The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon.

  Eric Schmidt

  Mistake, Networking, Social Network

  "Eric Schmidt's 2014 predictions: big genomics and smartphones everywhere". Bloomberg Interview, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2013.

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• What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within has received full empathic understanding, they will experience a sense of relief. We can become aware of this phenomenon by noticing a corresponding release of tension in our own body.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Empathy, Understanding, Relief

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• When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is, to speak in the Goethean sense, the archetypal phenomenon of social science. This sleeping-into we may call the social principle, the social impulse of the new era: we have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Sleep, Men, Empathy

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• The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Men, Expression, Ideas

  "The Paranoid Style in American Politics". Harper's Magazine, November 1964.

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