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“The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.”

Source: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

“Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planets—a connotation of moon and tides—the association of water less subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white of sea foam and billowy cloud crystallized in a pipe of fancy.”

Source: An exhibition of works

“Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a wasting disease. Then economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the consumption (that is, waste) of goods”

Used Sound Term Known Economy Century Theory Disease Waste Negative Destruction Bases Increase Accepted Goods Consumption Economist Bizarre 19th Century Connotation Tuberculosis

Author:Petr Skrabanek

“There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are positive. For example, words that evoke anxiety, either because of an individuals personal history or because of experimental manipulation, require greater illumination before first being perceived.”

Firsts Humans Individual Wish Greater Seeing Example Anxiety Negative Difficulty Tendencies Ease Manipulation Items Illumination Evoke Connotation Personal History

Author:Lionel Tiger

“Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.”

Stills Lasts Losing Negative Finishing Connotation

Author:David Wright

“You will find a blissfulness which contains in it sadness also, because that sadness gives it depth. Watch Buddha's statue - blissful, but still sad. The very word sad gives you wrong connotations - that something is wrong. This is your interpretation. To me, life in its totality is good.”

Giving Stills Happiness Watches Sadness Depth Interpretation Statues Totality Connotation

Author:Rajneesh

“But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value, it's not just loud. It doesn't have that violent connotation to it. I wanted to be a jazz musician so bad, but I really couldn't. There was no way I could figure out to learn how to play.”

Way Humans Play Wanted Values Figures Musician Jazz Violent Loud Making Love Jazz Music Elevation Jazz Musician Connotation Coltrane

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three determining factors, we are somewhat limited in the proper use of color in rooms.”

Use Values Three Understanding Rooms Design Color Obvious Various Factors Intensity Interior Design Hue Connotation

Author:Van Day Truex

“Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations in psychological terminology when it implies finding meaning or pattern where none exists; and some positive ones when it implies finding something important, useful or beautiful. It thus links creativity and psychosis, genius and madness.”

“Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found in the expression Buddha Dharma, and dharma as 'reality-as-is' (abhigama-dharma). The teaching is a verbal expression of reality-as-is that consists of two aspects-the subject that realizes and the object that is realized. Together they constitute 'reality-as-is;' if either aspect is lacking, it is not reality-as-is. This sense of dharma or reality-as-is is also called suchness (tathata) or thatness (tattva) in Buddhism.”

Ifs Two Reality Together Found Realizing Teaching Subjects Objects Expression Buddhism Aspect South Lacking Asian Dharma Connotation

Author:Taitetsu Unno

“The word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word "Witch" is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful; as men, to know the feminine within as divine.”

People Knows Men Use Powerful Wonder Divine Negative Carrie Feminine Witch Connotation

Book:The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition

“But a problem arises because whenever I use words, those words have connotations in your mind. When I say 'Celebrate', you think one has to be happy. How can one celebrate when one is sad? I am not saying that one has to be happy to celebrate. Celebration is gratefulness for whatsoever life gives to you. Whatsoever existence gives to you, celebration is a gratitude; it is a gratefulness.”

Thinking Giving Mind Use Problem Existence Gratitude Arise Celebrate Celebration Gratefulness Connotation

Author:Rajneesh

“You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.”

Sentences Smoke Rely Connotation

Author:Toni Morrison

“Being blonde is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blonde has some incredible sort of sexual connotation. Men really respond to it. I love blonde hair but it really does something different to you. I feel more grounded when I have dark hair, and I feel more ethereal when I have light hair. It's unexplainable. I also feel more Italian when my hair is dark.”

Men Feels Mind Doe I Can Different States Light Dark Hair Fingers Incredibles Italian State Of Mind Grounded Blonde Artifice Connotation Ethereal Blonde Hair Dark Hair Unexplainable

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or of the spatial properties of relationships of actual bodies is intended, and any similarities between the primitive concepts and their customary geometrical connotations are purely coincidental.”

Source: The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality

“The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think they are trapped in a river of regularized and ever-repeating time are merely the victims of their own ordinarizing minds that have elaborated for them a prison-cell of everydayness. The fountains of time, history, life, inspiration, etc. are fresh every instant, if one knows how to grasp them with some finesse: every instant within natural, historical, and personal time is unique.”

“Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.”

Negative Feminist Connotation

Author:Laura Kightlinger

“Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.”

“In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of intellectual and moral perversion and even political subversion.”

Has Beens Ideas America Political Moral Economic Intellectual Economics Circles Planning Perversion Connotation Subversion

Author:Gunnar Myrdal

“Whenever I hear someone describe something as a 'kids movie' or a 'family movie,' it immediately has a negative connotation in my mind because I think, 'Well, as an adult, I wouldn't go see it by myself, because it's purely for children and it holds nothing for me and it's simplistic and it's kind of easy.'”

Thinking Mind Wells Kind Children Kids Easy Adults Negative Connotation Kids Movie

Author:Steve Carell

“The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation is cut off. The meaning is fixed, doctored, loaded. Once it has become an official vocable, constantly repeated in general usage, "sanctioned" by the intellectuals, it has lost all cognitive value and serves merely for recognition of an unquestionable fact.”

Way Facts Values Culture Lost Cutting Recognition Fixed Officials Loaded Cognitive Nato Usage Transcending Connotation Ussr Abbreviations

Author:Herbert Marcuse

“Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.”

Used Culture Negative Ideology Inherent Connotation

Author:Dario Fo

“When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.”

People Thinking Book America Comic Comic Book Mice Mickey Juvenile Connotation

Author:Mark Hamill

“To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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