Encounters Quotes - Page 10

• Your past forms you, whether you like it or not.  Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.

  Lance Armstrong

  Past, Wind, Tree

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.14, Random House

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• I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

  Charles Kuralt

  Littles, Towns, Ordinary

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• Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Powerful, May, Cases

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.190, Princeton University Press

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• I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I am not careful, I can begin to mistake the words on the page for the realities they describe. I can begin to love the dried ink marks on the page more than I love the encounters that gave rise to them.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Mistake, Book, Reality

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.107, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities that author has to offer; and that for a host of reasons the bound book is the ideal vehicle for the written word.

  Sven Birkerts

  Believe, Book, Technology

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.13, Macmillan

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• I feel bad that people think that "feminism" is a dirty word. I don't understand that at all, I'm proud to be labeled a feminist. I consider myself a person who has throughout my entire life stood up for myself. It's never been my ambition to be someone who takes a backseat to anything. I'm not a male basher at all. I divide people into assholes and non-assholes, and that's genderless. I encounter sexism everyday.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Dirty, Ambition, Thinking

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• Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

  George Monbiot

  Substance, Soil, Materials

  "We're treating soil like dirt. It's a fatal mistake, as our lives depend on it" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2015.

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• Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.

  William Lane Craig

  Successful, Thinking, Sowing

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• Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless; we lose energy as a result of weariness and difficulties, and our fervor dies out. The Church urgently needs the deep breath of prayer, and to my great joy groups devoted to prayer and intercession, the prayerful reading of God's word and the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist are growing at every level of ecclesial life.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Reading, Joy

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.75, SPCK

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• The problem with kitsch is that it is all too profound, manipulating deep libidinal and ideological forces, while true art knows how to remain at the surface, how to subtract it's subject from it's deepest context of historical reality. The same goes for contemporary art, where we often encounter brutal attempts to return to the Real, to remind the spectator or reader that he is perceiving a fiction, to awaken him from a sweet dream.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Dream, Sweet, Art

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

  Doris Lessing

  Thinking, People, Groups

  Doris May Lessing (1996). “Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994”

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• There is a group of people who know very well where the weapons of automatic influence lie and employ them regularly and expertly to get what they want. They go from social encounter to social encounter requesting others to comply with their wishes; their frequency of success is dazzling.

  Robert Cialdini

  Lying, People, Wish

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• The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ordained by God and were a necessary part of their-and our-earthly experience. President Howard W. Hunter, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, taught: "We came to mortal life to encounter resistance. It was part of the plan for our eternal progress. Without temptation, sickness, pain, and sorrow, there could be no goodness, virtue, appreciation for well-being, or joy."

  Daniel K Judd

  Appreciation, Pain, Writing

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• A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

  Wendy Beckett

  Art, Changed, Art Is

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• In the study, 89 percent of Americans said that they interrupted their last social encounter by looking at a phone. And 82 percent of them said that it deteriorated the conversation.

  Judy Woodruff

  Phones, Lasts, Study

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  People, Hardship, Care

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Max Anders

  Substitutes, Word Of God

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• It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Suffering, Existentialism, Theme

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

  Tony Kushner

  Lying, Thinking, Choices

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• We are not trying to solve the world's problems... However, even in the midst of hatred and killing, there are things worth living for. A wonderful encounter, or a thing of beauty can still exist.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Hatred, Trying, World

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• When I do encounter young women or aspiring filmmakers who tell me that I've inspired them or that my work means something to them, that's amazing. That's really exciting!

  Diablo Cody

  Mean, Inspired, Young

  "Diablo Cody Talks about the 2013 Athena Film Festival, Female Writers and Directors She Admires, Plus Updates on PARADISE and SWEET VALLEY HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 5, 2013.

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• No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put it more forcibly than the adversary could put it for himself, and take account not only of what the adversary says, but also the best he MIGHT say, if only he had chanced to think it.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Thinking, Might, Fit

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• As leaders, we're giving out grades in every encounter we have with people. We can choose to give out grades as an expectation to live up to, and then we can reassess them according to performance. Or we can offer grades as a possibility to live into. The second approach is much more powerful.

  Benjamin Zander

  Powerful, People, Giving

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• Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. Also, efforts to curtail the supply of firearms inflict collateral damage on freedom and privacy interests that have long been considered central to American public life.

  Daniel D. Polsby

  Gun, Law, Long

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• There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!

  Elie Wiesel

  Destiny, Accidents

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