And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...)… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people. — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom. — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
Those who are to change significantly that which they freshly encounter must themselves be changed by the changing of it. — Reg Revans Copy Share Image
Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion. — Davy Rothbart Copy Share Image
A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Copy Share Image
Christ comes among us at Christmas: it is the perfect time for a personal encounter with the Lord. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness… — Grace Coolidge Copy Share Image
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in… — Linda Goldstein Knowlton Copy Share Image
I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught… — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
The River adapts itself to whatever route prove possible, but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics,… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem,… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
I think of the described dynamics as a fluid negotiation. I don't think these specific interactions can happen to the black or… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Most people don't relate to and can't generate concern for something they don't encounter personally or feel personally affected by. People have… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image