Phenomenon Quotes
623 Phenomenon quotes by 489 unique authors
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will…
— Warren G. Bennis
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To my mind, any phenomenon is para-cinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g. modularity with respect to space or time.
— Hollis Frampton
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Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people…
— Steve Case
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Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and…
— James Gleick
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As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked…
— J. Allen Hynek
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Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as…
— Robert McKee
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The religious way is the deep way, the way that sees what physical eyes alone fail to see, the intangibles of the heart of every…
— Sophia Lyon Fahs
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When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with…
— Bruno Munari
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I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it, and then as…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting…
— Marion Ross
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Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that…
— Josef Albers
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Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the…
— Stephen Bayley
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Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this…
— Peter Bart
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It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy
— Chris Cole
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We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
— Leon Jouhaux
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I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man…
— Dalai Lama
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You seem to be absolutely unaware of the phenomenon of marriage - which is destructive to both man and woman. Love is creative, marriage is…
— Rajneesh
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Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible that marriage can…
— Rajneesh
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To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It…
— Rajneesh
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It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never grow. Lovers grow,…
— Rajneesh
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The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with…
— Israel Kirzner
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Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.
— Sugata Mitra
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The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the charm of mystery. They appear…
— Paul Carus
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The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are…
— Le Corbusier
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