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Quotes About Emergence

Some things require the dark night to bloom.
~ Sue Stauffacher
All theatrical forms of movement - the 'silly walks' and pratfalls, but also the arm-swinging ('I am carefree!') and the deliberate direction-changing ('I am rouge!') - leach out of the room. Unexpected collectivity has slowly emerged in its place. Perhaps most important, embarrassment has been given up. Without their having noticed it, they're no longer embarrassed. Their speed has equalized until they're all traveling at the same rate.
~ Susan Choi
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
~ Ibrahim Babangida
The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.
~ Aly Khan
By the sole fact of his entering into 'Thought,' man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over.
~ Henry Rollins
The formation of the embryo and childbirth repeat the primeval fact of the birth of humanity, looked upon as an emergence from the deepest chtonian cavern-matrix.
~ Mircea Eliade
Saeed went with his father to pray on the first Friday after the curfew's commencement, and Saeed prayer for peace and Saeed's father prayed for Saeed and the preacher in his sermon urged all the congregants to pry for the righteous to emerge victorious in the war but carefully refrained from specifying on which side of the conflict he thought the righteous to be.
~ Mohsin Hamid
It is quite uninteresting; that is why one comes out. — Temeraire, on being inside an egg
~ Naomi Novik
If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
The 'family', in the sense in which the term is used today, emerged only after a long process of historical development. The many figures that populated the family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gradually disappeared until the couple of husband and wife took the centre of the stage, and the marriage contract became constitutive of domestic relations.
~ Carole Pateman
Weirdly, strangely—wonderfully—he knew this was the moment he was touching the bottom, and he understood that from now on, however gradually, he would begin to heal.
~ Charlaine Harris
Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.
~ Chris Chocola
She is emerging (she has no choice) / into a place / like sex or childbirth, / one thing to the observer, something very different to the participant.
~ Kathleen Ossip
did emerge from hospital
~ Katie Flynn
la mayor necesidad en cada región visitada son " líderes". Hoy más que nunca en las naciones del mundo necesitamos que emerjan verdaderos líderes que transformen para bien nuestra Sociedad.
~ Keith Johnson
The key point here bears repeating: I have decided on an argument ("Technology has weakened parenting skills"), but I didn't start with that argument in mind. Instead, I started by reading lots of data under the umbrella of the unit of study, and it was through the reading of this data that my research question emerged.
~ Kelly Gallagher
Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
~ Kenneth Scott Latourette
Myth 2: Leadership is about individuals. In fact, leadership is a distributed or collective capacity in a system, not just something that individuals do. Leadership is about the capacity of the whole system to sense and actualize the future that wants to emerge.
~ C. Otto Scharmer
our life a short pilgrimage, the interval between emergence from original oneness and sinking back into it!
~ C.G. Jung
But just as conscious contents can vanish into the unconscious, new contents, which have never yet been conscious, can arise from it.
~ C.G. Jung
When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.
~ CARL BEREITER
The significance of things can only evolve in time.Nothing is what it is until it becomes what it must become
~ Gaye Shortland
it is one thing for experimentation to take place: it is another for it to acquire critical mass – or, to use a different metaphor, for ripples to become a wave. ... One sign was the emergence or re-emergence of an international audience that actually sought out artistically challenging films.
~ Geoffrey Nowell-smith