Encounter Quotes

716 Encounter quotes by 535 unique authors

[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. (...) In cultivated risk-taking,… — Anthony Giddens
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them. — Stephan Jenkins
Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody… — Barack Obama
Slenderman can invoke memory loss in all but the most resolute - you could have already had a Slenderman encounter and not remember it. — Jack Goldstein
Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death,… — Jayne Anne Phillips
Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be… — Eudora Welty
I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community… — Oliver Sacks
Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a moment of truth.… — Amalia Kahana-Carmon
THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which… — Neville Goddard
Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives… — Dalai Lama
At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper… — Mark Z. Danielewski
Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal… — Louis C. K.
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and… — Alain de Botton
We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI
Cadence Encounter Conformal Custom provides a quicker turnaround as the result of its exhaustive verification without the use of stimuli, .. Cadence continues to invest… — Michael Chang
Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling… — Rupert Sheldrake
I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and… — Carol Ann Duffy
Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something… — Thomas Kinkade
When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any… — Eric Maisel
I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking… — Graham Sutherland

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