Quotes About Phenomenon

The idea of old age had not come to their conscious awareness, but their actions had changed nevertheless. This remarkable priming phenomenon—the influencing of an action by the idea—is known as the ideomotor effect.

Michotte had a different idea: he argued that we see causality, just as directly as we see color.

This remarkable priming phenomenon—the influencing of an action by the idea—is known as the ideomotor effect.

Riflessi di uccelli continuavano a spalmarsi sull'acqua, anche quando il cielo era vuoto. Un prodigioso fenomeno ottico, disse Humboldt. L'ottica non c'entra niente, disse Mario. Gli uccelli morivano continuamente, in ogni momento, in realtà non facevano quasi nient'altro. I loro spiriti sopravvivevano nei loro riflessi. Da qualche parte dovevano pur andare, giacché in cielo erano indesiderati. E gli insetti?, chiese Bonpland. Quelli non muoiono mai. E proprio lì stava il problema.

Eighth is yet another new phenomenon: the appeal of public-square crossover novels.

He had begun to accept the background noise of the falls was no natural phenomenon but rather the thundering tears of gods.

Phenomenon," in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed., signifies "an object or aspect known through the senses rather than by thought or intuition." It is commonly contrasted with the term "noumenon" (from the Greek nooumenon: "that which is apprehended by thought"—itself derived from the Greek term nous, for "mind").

The cybereconomy, rather than China, could well be the greatest economic phenomenon of the next thirty years.

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

They fell from the sky in jagged streaks, like bars of

We should begin thinking of events as the primary realities and of time as an abstraction from them—a concept derived mainly from regular repeating events, such as the ticking of clocks. Events are perceived, but time is not (Gibson, 1975).

There is some primal instinct in the human male that drives us to communal pissing, and it's a phenomenon of which I'm very fond.

When society is unveiled, when we see that it is whatever we want it to be, that it is a species of culture with nothing necessary in it, by no means a phenomenon of nature or a manifestation of instinct, nature is no longer shaped and fitted into one or another set of societal goals. Unveiled, we stand before a nature whose only face is its hidden self-origination: its genius.

Sexuality is not a bounded phenomenon but a horizonal phenomenon for infinite players. One can never say, therefore, that an infinite player is homosexual, or heterosexual, or celibate, or adulterous, or faithful-because each of these definitions has to do with boundaries, with circumscribed areas and styles of play. Infinite players do not play within sexual boundaries, but with sexual boundaries. They are concerned not with power but with vision.

Oh... It's a thing.

Anything that happens, happens.

An eclipse is one phenomenon that is actually more impressive from the ground.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

Death is a dying industry with an economic phenomenon.

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

The Messi of the early years was a phenomenon, but he always wanted to finish off the move. Now he goes past one, two, or three players and is happy to give an assist to a team-mate - it makes him more dangerous and more difficult to stop than ever before.

In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I'm amazed how this could happen, and I don't know why it happened. I'm just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.