Phenomenon Quotes - Page 32

• Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud.

  Steve Ballmer

  Clouds, Innovation, Wave

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• While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.

  Michael Hersch

  Art, Believe, Writing

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.

  Dan Harmon

  Tough Times, Clock, Position

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Luck, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.44, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth , and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other

  Daniel Dennett

  Play, Fire, People

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• The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a "denier" and informs us that climate change is "a principle in physics. It's like gravity. It exists." Perhaps he's right. Climate change is like gravity - a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it.

  Sarah Palin

  Long, Interesting, President

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• It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding.

  Timothy Keller

  Philosophical, Would Be, Tests

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• Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other.

  Rajneesh

  May, Awakening, Inference

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• I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control.

  Carl Jung

  Powerful, Discovery, Opposites

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.489, Routledge

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• With the near-death or clinical near-death phenomenon some people who are brought back from 'death' have reported being alive the entire time they were 'dead.' This phenomenon occurs among people with a wide diversity of religious belief and no religious belief at all - from atheists to Zen Buddhists.

  John Ankerberg

  Religious, Buddhist, Atheist

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• To be and to be creative are synonymous. It is impossible to be and not to be creative. But that impossible thing has happened, that ugly phenomenon has happened, because all your creative sources have been plugged, blocked, destroyed, and your whole energy has been forced into some activity that the society thinks is going to pay.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Impossible Things, Creative

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• There are intelligible principles inherent in the matter of every phenomenon; because matter is essentially the sum of all the seemings that it has for any and all persons.

  Protagoras

  Principles, Matter, Inherent

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• In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.

  Neal Stephenson

  Trying, Three, Looks

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• Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas........scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different but mutually exclusive explanations for the same phenomenon.

  Frank J. Tipler

  Emotional, Ideas, Qualms About

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• The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Views, Quality, Adjectives

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• Well, it was an interesting phenomenon, because I come from a very union town - I come from Chicago. And have been involved in unions most of my life. I think in a lot of ways unions aren't necessary anymore, because what they were started for, I think a lot of those conditions don't exist. And this union is so odd, because any sort of fight we do in this union is not for us, it's for future generations.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Fighting, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: deadline.com

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• What makes a show good for me, personally, is a mystery that just doesn't quit. I want to know why. Why did this happen? Why is this phenomenon occurring? Why did that person do that? A series is really good to me that takes its time in answering those questions.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Want, Quitting, Mystery

  Source: collider.com

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• Death is the great equalizer. I've seen that phenomenon many times. I've had people in my classes come to me, men and women over 50 years old, and they say, "I made it, I'm rich. But what the hell is my life for?"

  Jacob Needleman

  Men, Years, Class

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• The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer - an insipid one or a clumsy one - but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns; and that bulges his brow a bit, narrows his jaws, weakens his eyes and gives him girl children instead of boys. Nobody but a writer can write. People who hang around writers for years - as producers did - who are much smarter and have much better taste, never learn to write.

  Ben Hecht

  Girl, Children, Eye

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.

  John B. S. Haldane

  War, Progress, Example

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

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• It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

  Michael Douglas

  Actors, British, Young

  "Jeremy Irvine's Fan Club". Interview with Michael Douglas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2015.

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• The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

  M. Scott Peck

  Essence, People, Growing

  M. Scott Peck (1998). “The Road Less Traveled and Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• The realm of the real is Spirit. The unlikeness of Spirit is matter, and the opposite of the real is not divine, it is a human concept. Matter is an error of statement. This error in the premise leads to errors in the conclusion in every statement into which it enters. Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is immortal, for matter is temporal and is therefore a mortal phenomenon, a human concept, sometimes beautiful, always erroneous.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.335, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

  Allen Lacy

  Gardening, Attention

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• My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

  Terence McKenna

  Communication, Ideas, Effort

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