#phenomenon

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#commonplace #creations #living #nature #nothing

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#phenomenon #real #until

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

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down. ↗

— Leon Foucault

#calmly #develops #down #either #feels

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you. ↗

— Christopher McCandless

#means #personal #personal relationship #phenomenon #relationship

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. ↗

— Jan Morris

#beirut #impossible #perhaps #phenomenon #quite

These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. ↗

— Julian Assange

#important #increase #only #phenomenon #these

The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon. ↗

— John Astin

#association #difficult #feedback #get #gomez

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. ↗

— Eben Alexander

#did #experiences #i #phenomenon

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life. ↗

— Giorgio de Chirico

#aspect #aspects #certain #confer #dream