Phenomenon Quotes - Page 38

• I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Expression, Resentment

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mean, Civilization, Support

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.17, Pluto Press

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• No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Important, I Love You

  "Symposium on Structure of Enzymes and Proteins" by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, (p. 284), 1956.

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• The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.

  Ayn Rand

  Father, Men, Political

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• Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Negativity, Insane, Let It Go

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.189, New World Library

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• Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come.

  Tom Robbins

  Marijuana, Thinking, Rights

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

  Paul McCartney

  Moving, Philosophical, Men

  "Paul McCartney" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much of the basis of Plan 9 (though Rob Pike was the real force in getting it together). And in the meantime Ken created the first computer chess master and pretty much rewrote the book on chess endgames. He is quite a phenomenon.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Real, Book, Careers

  Source: genius.cat-v.org

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• The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or - much more mysteriously - to submit to it.

  Jean Francois Revel

  Exercise, People, Important

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• The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.

  Junot Diaz

  Ideas, America, Immigration

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.

  Susan Fiske

  Legacy, Want, Wells

  "We talked to the scientist at the center of a brutal firestorm in the field of psychology". Interview with Rafi Letzter, www.businessinsider.com. September 26, 2016.

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• The thing of being able to share somebody's reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know. Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody's reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically. The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go? If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which... you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.

  Jerry Garcia

  Communication, Mean, Reality

  Source: medium.com

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