#phenomenon

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#athens #band #being #coast #east

The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#language #phenomenon #symbol #change

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 probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on. ↗

— Warren Bennis

#american #become #concern #demand #development

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#enormous #fools #i #important #maintained

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. ↗

— John Doerr

#clearly #more #now #phenomenon #readers

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#attitude #become #can-do #disenchanted #example

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#belief #central #conviction #curious #existence

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#exception #individual #only #partly #perceives

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#experiences #happen #having #people #phenomenon