#phenomena

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#bloom #fade #feel #full #know

Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#anything #became #being #did #else

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical. ↗

— Keith Haring

#artist #becoming #boom #collecting #combined

I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill. ↗

— James Hillman

#calls #drop #fulfill #i #i wonder

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#contrast #each #individual #object #objects

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#women

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#god #hearts #made #phenomena #poor

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#even #five #friends #good #good friends

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#boy #complexity #diversity #evolution #i

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#data #democracy #design #designed #effect