Phenomenon Quotes - Page 37

• Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

  Chuck D

  Musical, Music Is, Music Industry

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• We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.

  Terence McKenna

  Cycling, Shadow, Body

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• Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Giving, Doe, Labels

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• Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

  Angela Davis

  Time, Racism, Kind

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• The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Loneliness, Solitary Life, Facts

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• Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause and effect, loops of causal flow. These phenomenon are just as real as atoms - perhaps even more real. If anything, the entire universe is actually made from events, of which atoms are merely some of the consequences.

  Steve Grand

  Real, Flow, Causes

  Steve Grand (2003). “Creation: Life and How to Make It”, p.6, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in. Then a strange phenomenon occurs: as soon as we are included in the party because of Jesus' irresponsible love, we decide to make grace "more responsible" by becoming self-appointed Kingdom Monitors, guarding the kingdom of God, keeping the riffraff out (which, as I understand it, are who the kingdom of God is supposed to include).

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Party, Doors

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• A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Meaning Of Life, Derivatives, Forgotten

  Irvin D. Yalom, Molyn Leszcz (2008). “The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy”, p.31, Basic Books

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• Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

  Dan Millman

  Life, Pain, Attitude

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• For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.

  Stefan Zweig

  Memories, Long Ago, Order

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European”, p.12, Pushkin Press

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• I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Effort, Together, Want

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.1156, D. H. Lawrence

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• Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Girl, Education

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• People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Money, Congratulations

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• The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace — a gift of God, a message from the unconscious.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Self, Long

  "The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth".

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• Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Eye

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• If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

  Artie Shaw

  Ordinary, Wonder, Ifs

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• Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you are miserable; that is the reality, that is what is happening, so confront that. Look it square in the eye without flinching. When you are having a bad time, examine that experience, observe it mindfully, study the phenomenon and learn its mechanics. The way out of a trap is to study the trap itself, learn how it is built. You do this by taking the thing apart piece by piece. The trap can’t trap you if it has been taken to pieces. The result is freedom.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Taken, Eye, Buddhism

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we must study, and to whose conditions we must submit, if we would mitigate it.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Law, Sorrow, Study

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1865). “Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh”, p.166

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• Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

  Sugata Mitra

  Motivation, Inspiration, Self

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• It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Games, Chess, Well Known

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• It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species of primate, a biological phenomenon dominated by biological rules, like any other species. Human nature is no more than one particular kind of animal nature. Agreed, the human species is an extraordinary animal; but all other species are also extraordinary animals, each in their own way, and the scientific man-watcher can bring many fresh insights to the study of human affairs if he can retain this basic attitude of evolutionary humility.

  Desmond Morris

  Attitude, Humility, Men

  Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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• Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.

  Candace Pert

  Philosophy, Medicine, Mind

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• Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.

  Inge Morath

  Photography, Eye, Soul

  Inge Morath, Sabine Folie, Gerald Matt (1999). “Inge Morath, life as a photographer”, Gina Kehayoff Pub

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• The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Different, Thousand

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• There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.

  Peter Høeg

  Distance, Moving, Understanding

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.222, Macmillan

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