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Quotes About Emergence

This is fictional time, where events play out and possibilities are exhausted, so that meaning can emerge.
~ Joan Silber
I think there's an enormous lot of talent around, and somewhere amongst these I'm sure that something will emerge, given time.
~ Conrad Aiken
You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.
~ Simon Le Bon
The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.
~ Manmohan Singh
I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.
~ Neil Gaiman
Somewhere inside her were the souls of words. They climbed out and stood beside her.
~ mark zusak
And when we finally stood up and turned to face the world, I could feel something climbing through me. I could feel it on its hands and knees inside me, rising up, rising up - and I smiled. I smiled, thinking, The hunger, because I knew it all too well. The hunger. The desire. Then, slowly, as we walked on, I felt the beauty of it, and I could taste it, like words inside my mouth.
~ Markus Zusak
It feels nice to emerge from the lies.
~ Markus Zusak
In the century of jazz we are likely to overlook the emergence of the waltz as a hot and explosive human expression that broke through the formal feudal barriers of courtly and choral dance styles.
~ Marshall McLuhan
But what is great can only begin great.
~ Martin Heidegger
?ó??—gleam, shine, radiance Emerging out of itself and yet remaining with itself—continuously radiating out from itself and yet nothing given away or lost. Gleaming—shining not only away from itself and an emergence, but also beckoning back into something dark, concealed, inaccessible. Shining—the radiance of the self-concealing.
~ Martin Heidegger
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Eureka act proper, the moment of truth experienced by the creative individual, is paralleled on the collective plane by the emergence, out of the scattered fragments, of a new synthesis, brought about by a quick succession of individual discoveries-where, characteristically, the same discovery is often made by several individuals at the same time.
~ Arthur Koestler
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flashes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The dive vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.
~ Arthur Koestler
When the desire for definition, self or otherwise, comes out of a desire for limitation rather than a desire for expansion, no true face can emerge.
~ Audre Lorde
Anglo-Saxon and Franco-Norman came into closer contact, and the linguistic survival techniques on both sides led to the emergence of a supple, adaptable language in which you could invent or half-borrow words and didn't have to worry so much about whether your sentences had the right verb endings or respected certain strict rules of word order and style (as this sentence proves). The result was the earliest form of what would become English.
~ Stephen Clarke
Neuroimaging in the brain shows that once the areas of the brain that process incoming sensory data are sensitized to incoming data, that is, once the gating channels are opened more widely, the sections of the brain that gate that particular type of sensory data stay open. The baseline gating level increases even if the degree of sensory stimulus is not increased. The metaphysical background of the world begins to emerge into sensing on a regular basis.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Bodies such as stars or black holes cannot just appear out of nothing. But a whole universe can.
~ Stephen Hawking
My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open our eyes with aha -- while direct, abstract, learned assaults upon generalities usually glaze them over.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)
~ Jerrold Mundis
We emerged into the afternoon light dazed and emotionally spent.
~ Jojo Moyes
cáncer es una enfermedad del alma de la que sólo puedo decir: es una suerte que finalmente haya hecho eclosión.»
~ Emmanuel Carrère
He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!
~ Eric Carle
It is light that cheers us when we are downhearted, it is light that brings us solace out of suffering, it is light that beams upon us when we discover some new hidden truth of the universe—it is light that first greets us when we emerge into this world.
~ Eric P. Kelly