Phenomenon Quotes - Page 17

• Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hate, Love You, Love Is

  Swami Vivekananda (2017). “Vedanta: Voice of Freedom”, p.295, Vedanta Society of St. Louis

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• All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.

  Terence McKenna

  Hallucinations, Psychedelic, Should

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• But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.

  Bob Gaudio

  Rolling, Stories, Stones

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• I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Art, Believe, Energy

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• In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there view their job as being to make sure their kid never has a moment of unhappiness. Of course, as a parent myself, I can understand the urge, but I don't know whether it would be healthy or possible.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Children, Kids

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• I think 'Twilight' was such a phenomenon that it will be a while before anything like that will happen again. Cause it really influenced pop culture, and the stars of it - well, the people who became stars out of it - their lives were completely changed.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Stars, Twilight, Thinking

  "Watch: ‘The Host’ star Saoirse Ronan on the ‘scary’ possibility of ‘Twilight’-level fame" by Chris Eggertsen, uproxx.com. March 27, 2013.

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• At the moment, the extremists have significant financial popular and theological backing in the Middle East. And that is an enduring phenomenon. And it's one that is going to require a long, ideological war to win.

  Chuck Todd

  War, Winning, Long

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's a romantic view of Canada. It's like Michael Moore saying we don't lock our doors in Canada. I lock my door mainly because my girlfriend wants me to lock the door, but mind you we lock our doors. It is a little simplistic to say that we blend easily back home with other cultures. It's difficult, but I think it's mainly a big city phenomenon.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Girlfriend, Home, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird.

  Rachel Maddow

  Car, Racing, Littles

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• The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

  Ken Wilber

  Arbitrary, Shifting, Truth Is

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• One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in a philosophic sense is to look between the two great extremes: the idealist philosophy that says mind and consciousness is the only thing and that matter is simply an illusion, or a Maya, the product of mind; and the other extreme, a strict materialist determinism, which says that mind and consciousness is a secondary phenomenon of the collision of matter.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Philosophy, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I'm convinced that after years of studying the phenomenon, global warming is not the real issue of temperature. That is the issue of a new ideology or a new religion. A religion of climate change or a religion of global warming. This is a religion which tells us that the people are responsible for the current, very small increase in temperatures. And they should be punished.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Real, Years, Issues

  "Czech President Klaus: Global Warming Not Science, but a 'New Religion'" by Gene J. Koprowski, www.foxnews.com. December 18, 2009.

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• The most significant thing about the Monkees as a pop phenomenon is that we were the only TV show about young adults that did not feature a wiser, older person.

  Peter Tork

  Tv Shows, Significant Things, Adults

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• We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours influence the vote in the U.S. Congress. They can influence the entire voting patterns of the Indian Parliament. Ordinary people who put governments in power might want to go in a different direction. I call this the phenomenon of the inverted state, where the state is no longer accountable to the people. The state only serves the interests of corporations.

  Vandana Shiva

  Government, People, Political

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Art, Helping, Consciousness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.

  Susan Jacoby

  Thinking, People, Empires

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.

  Patricia Churchland

  Giving Up, Missing, Ifs

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I don't think that we are capable of anything like this many possible colour responses. Instead I argue that the perception of colour differences between two surfaces viewed side-by-side is a gestalt phenomenon.

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Two, Differences

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I think that there is something that happens, a phenomenon that happens around a conspiracy theory, where if you believe in a conspiracy theory, then every critique of that theory is simply more proof that the conspiracy exists. And I think that that's something that goes on in the person of Donald Trump.

  Ben Domenech

  Believe, Thinking, Goes On

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• For me, we're all comfortable, we're all happy, hopefully, but at the same time something will happen and you have to kind of understand that phenomenon. You have to understand what's going on and I've always been fascinated by craziness and lunacy.

  Richard Patrick

  Kind, Craziness, Hopefully

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• I think it`s a message of economic nationalism. It`s obviously one that has bubbled up before in certain pockets, but it`s never been the sort of powerful phenomenon that it is today.

  Ben Domenech

  Powerful, Thinking, Pockets

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Buoyancy is a phenomenon whereby, as a leader, you float because the people you inspired believe that you should, because you've truly connected with the collective desires and values of the people you lead.

  Kevin Allen

  Believe, People, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Two, Inquiring

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• In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think.

  Tom Scharpling

  Crazy, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It is not all that common, but there is a phenomenon where autism could get worse at about age two. There are some controversies whether regression is a prominent part of autism, but many people feel that it's very hard to diagnose autism before you can begin really talking in detail with a child.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Children, Talking, Two

  "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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