Phenomenon Quotes

623 Phenomenon quotes by 489 unique authors

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song. — Zoltan Kodaly
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. . . . Not doing right may have momentary payoffs… — Laura Schlessinger
If you become capable of relaxing the body voluntarily, then you will be able to help your mind relax voluntarily. Mind is a more complex… — Rajneesh
True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of… — Unknown Author
Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If… — Paul Davies
Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver,… — Unknown Author
The fact is, these are actors playing parts, and maybe it's not such a bad thing that people be reminded of that. Both of these… — Bill Condon
The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon, — Eric Schmidt
If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much. — Artie Shaw
What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within has received full… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is,… — Rudolf Steiner
It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his… — Albert J. Nock
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to… — Richard Hofstadter
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an… — Stephen Jay Gould
The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in… — Rick Springfield
A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on… — Konosuke Matsushita
Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes,… — Camille Paglia
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid… — Andrew Solomon
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… — Henepola Gunaratana
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as… — Blaise Pascal
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and… — Laurance Labadie
Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it. — Arthur C. Clarke
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific… — William James

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