Encounters Quotes · Page 8

The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.

— Max Anders

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

— Natalie Goldberg

You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie.

— Woody Allen

“Next to the fire is where you are born and where you die. Around the fire is where encounters are sealed.”

— Paolo Rumiz

Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center.

— Rollo May

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

— James E. Faust

My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

— Jim Parsons

Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without…

— Keke Palmer

Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their blade,…

— Masaaki Hatsumi

If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit…

— Maxwell Perkins

When you encounter that first love, a young love, you do feel that your story is original. You are utterly convinced that…

— Paul Dalio

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

— Ted Malloch

There exists a cell of policemen within the Delhi Police which is accountable to no one but itself. Operating without uniforms, these…

— Prashant Bhushan

[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter…

— Doris Lessing

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

— Jeff Bezos

I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the…

— Julia Cameron

When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I'm grateful that I allowed her to…

— Edward Snowden

When, in adoration, we look at the consecrated Host, the sign of creation speaks to us. And so, we encounter the greatness…

— Pope Benedict XVI

People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The urge to quit is strongest just before breakthroughs occur. Those are the times when it's most important to stay focused and…

— Matthew Barnett

You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for…

— Jay McInerney

When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have…

— Jack Kornfield

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

— Friedrich Dessauer

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

Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never…

— Marisha Pessl

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

— Bob Hartley

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

— Nhat Hanh

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

— Henri Nouwen

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

Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God.

— Pope Francis

Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

— David Mamet

Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

— Rollo May

At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.

— John Green

We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.

— Anonymous

Love may not make the world go round, but the encounters make it worth the trip.

— Anonymous

While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.

— Frederick Lenz

I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.

— Amanda Marcotte