Best Encountered Words
219 Encountered quotes by 200 unique authors
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Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.
— Albert Einstein
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Like a plank of driftwood Tossed on the watery main, Another plank encountered, Meets, touches, parts again; So tossed, and drifting ever, On life's unresting…
— Edwin Arnold
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For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered.
— Mirra Komarovsky
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[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost…
— Steve Jobs
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My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of…
— H P Lovecraft
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you…
— Steve Jobs
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I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would…
— Steve Jobs
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Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.
— Brigham Young
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I have never encountered a winner that held hate towards something.
— Conor McGregor
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The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time.…
— Lawrence Kushner
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If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced…
— John Powell
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Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
— William Faulkner
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All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I…
— William Gibson
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Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting…
— Louis C. K.
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When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
— Bob Edwards
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
— Albert Einstein
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The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
— Philip Emeagwali
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
— Melissa Etheridge
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I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to dimensionalize…
— Vera Farmiga
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their…
— B. C. Forbes
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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being…
— Seamus Heaney
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost…
— Steve Jobs
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers.…
— A J Liebling
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle…
— Orison Swett Marden
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