Encounters Quotes - Page 22

• A moment’s encounter can decide the direction of one’s entire life

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Moments

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• But over the years, I've learned not to believe too much in luck or accidents; T think everything happens for a reason. There's something to be learned from every moment, every experience we encounter during the brief time we spend on this planet. Call it fate, call it destiny, call it what you will; it really doesn't matter.

  Syd Field

  Believe, Fate, Destiny

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• The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.

  Hugh Ferriss

  Powerful, Character, Agency

  Hugh Ferriss (2012). “The Metropolis of Tomorrow”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

  Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

  Greatness, Cities, People

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• My greatest desire is that you would encounter His presence; and everything about your life would be different.

  Karen Wheaton

  Desire, Different, Would Be

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• It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall.

  Ashley Kahn

  Rocks, Long, Hip Hop

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• Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Conversation

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• To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.

  Anders Petersen

  Important, Matter

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• Genuine Christian experience must always include an encounter with God Himself.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Genuine

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• It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.

  Susan Fiske

  Goal, Hierarchy, Typical

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• We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Wise, Views

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• Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives. With different words, they all proclaim the same core message: "Be not afraid." Though the traditions vary widely in the ways they propose to take us beyond fear, all hold out the same hope: we can escape fear's paralysis and enter a state of grace where encounters with otherness will not threaten us but will enrich our work and our lives.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Spiritual, Fear, Effort

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• We are called to be 'ambassadors for Christ' (2 Cor 5:20). Ours is a ministry of reconciliation ... To be an ambassador for Christ means above all to invite everyone to a renewed personal encounter with the Lord Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Mean, Ministry

  Francis, Pope (2017). “With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shephards”, p.70, Orbis Books

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• How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Men, Ideas

  "Coningsby". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book VII, Ch. 2, 1844.

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• Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

  Elie Wiesel

  Discovery, Cities, Paris

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Testament: A novel”, p.168, Schocken

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• You find photographs in so many different ways - from chance encounters, from looking at your negatives, from the way the light hits your pillow in your home, from a sound or a movement that makes you look... It’s whatever draws you or makes you feel something. Then, the picture is only good if it has a life of its own. Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it’s really good, it’s another form of life.

  Sylvia Plachy

  Dream, Home, Light

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• The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Agency, World

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.91, Vintage

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• Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

  Arthur Koestler

  Two, May, Coincidence In Life

  "Bricks to Babel: Selected Writings". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1980.

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• Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

  Robert Breault

  Haste, Debate, Social

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• It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Entrepreneur, India, Firsts

  "$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Grace, Conversation

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.35, Penguin

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• It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Way, Pleasant, One Way

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• Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

  John Milton

  Truth, Truth And Falsehood, Falsehood

  Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28

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• Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Men, Play, Trying

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter.

  Ai Qing

  Morning, Wish To Die, Joy

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