Phenomenon Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• 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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• It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

  Alex Grey

  Taken For Granted, Trying, Alive

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• There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Ignorance, Gaps, Strive

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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