Encounters Quotes - Page 2

• One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.

  Luis Palau

  Jesus, Forever, Christ

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• No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

  Heraclitus

  Doe, Prosperity, Danger

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• To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life, Wisdom, Smart

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• When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Encouragement, Trying, Contradiction

  Saint Francis (de Sales) (1953). “Spiritual maxims”

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• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  Larry Flynt

  Jobs, Business, Believe

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• My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

  Richard Gere

  Buddhist, Men, Would Be

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• It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, First Impression, Faces

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

  E. W. Howe

  Education, Teenage, Teaching

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• Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Individual, Old Jokes, Jokes

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.741, Northwestern University Press

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• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

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• Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

  Albert Camus

  History, Want, Nostalgia

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.248, Vintage

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• The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Writing, Journey

  "French Writers of the Past" by Carol A. Dingle, (p. 126), 2000.

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• The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Teaching, Literature

  "Enlightened Business: Leadership for Sustainable Success". Book by Joolz Lewis, 2014.

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• In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Work, Anger, People

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• Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Men, God Love, Appearance

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (2004). “Love Alone is Credible”, p.61, Ignatius Press

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• However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

  Frederick Reines

  School, Technology, Enthusiasm

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• In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

  Rowan Williams

  God, Kindness, Needs

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• I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

  Bob Balaban

  Thinking, Special, Effects

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• What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Mind, Literature, Moments

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• In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

  Piers Anthony

  Sex, Believe, America

  Interview with Dag R., www.sffworld.com. June 5, 2000.

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• I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

  Bob Balaban

  Watches, Exciting, Close Encounters

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• Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

  Lucretius

  War, Literature, Pleasure

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”

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• People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life.

  Pete Rozelle

  Football, Emotional, Oasis

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• My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

  Wentworth Miller

  Hands, White, Racism

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