Encounters Quotes · Page 10

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

— Rollo May

I think everyone has spiritual encounters and feelings but I don't think everyone chooses to acknowledge them.

— Ryan Montgomery

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

— Anonymous

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

— J. K. Rowling

I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

— Julia Cameron

After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.

— Jeffrey R. Holland

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

— William James

Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!

— Andrew Lord

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition…

— Frederick Reines

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

— Pope Francis

The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

— Pope Benedict XVI

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in…

— Naguib Mahfouz

American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is…

— Graham Greene

I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation.

— David Kim

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the…

— Neale Donald Walsch

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

— Charles Kuralt

His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on…

— Edward Seaga

Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that…

— Ian Bogost

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you…

— John Knowles

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time,…

— Scott Anderson

It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I…

— Ayn Rand

“Encounters taking the form of challenge-and-response are the most illuminating kind of events a for student of human affairs if he believes,…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside…

— Susan Meiselas

I, too, am deeply concerned with an overarching idea that dramaturgs are now authors . . .. I am not taking the…

— Dana Rosemary Scallon

I was taken in the Spirit to the burning bush on Mount Horeb, Moses' "first ascension," and allowed to witness the encounter…

— Bob Hartley

Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to…

— Rollo May

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether…

— John le Carre

The work of the inventor consists of conceptualizing, combining, and ordering what is possible according to the laws of nature. This inner…

— Friedrich Dessauer

Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our…

— Stephen Batchelor

To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of…

— N. Scott Momaday

One of the remarkable qualities of the story is that it creates space. We can dwell in a story, walk around, find…

— Henri Nouwen

When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head,…

— Nhat Hanh

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

— James Lane Allen

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

— Ryan Kwanten

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

— Arthur Koestler

One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.

— Steve Pavlina

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

— Denis Leary

I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.

— Madonna Ciccone

Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.

— Morihei Ueshiba

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

— Susan Meiselas