Encounters Quotes - Page 39

• The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

  William James

  Gratitude, Mind, Circumstances

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• Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!

  Andrew Lord

  Magic, Wonder, Moments

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• Everybody is an expert in giving advice on how you cannot do something. So forget about everybody. And then, when you encounter a hurdle-and I do that every week-view it as an opportunity, not the end of the world. Do whatever you need to do to get past it quickly. If you believe in your dream, you'll definitely get there.

  Maria Elena Ibanez

  Dream, Believe, Past

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• The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the awareness of responsibility inevitably leads either to despair or to confession and grace.

  Paul Tournier

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Miracle

  "Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions".

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• Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.

  Jonas Salk

  Block, Journey, People

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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• We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.

  Elif Safak

  Rabbit Holes, Rabbits, Culture

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• The shaman no longer looks for meaning in life, but brings meaning to every situation. The shaman stops looking for truth and instead brings truth to every encounter. You don t look for the right partner, you become the right partner. And then the right partner finds you. It s a very active practice focused on healing.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Healing, Practice, Looks

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• Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

  Sherry Turkle

  Doe, Kind, Intimacy

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.12, Basic Books

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• I’m not trying to turn you into cowboys, I’m just trying to get you better coordinated, get your horse used to things, get your horse comfortable.
  Heck, on the first ride you should be swinging a rope off a horse. You should be doing this not so you can rope a cow, but just to get him (your horse) gentle.
  You can’t think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you’d better prepare em for it in other ways.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Cowboy, Thinking

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• You can't think of everything in life your horse might encounter that might make him afraid so you'd better prepare em for it in other ways.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Thinking, Ems

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• So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Real, Book, Fate

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• I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

  Jean Giono

  Real, Writing, People

  Jean Giono, John Cumming (2001). “An Italian Journey”, p.30, Northwestern University Press

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• Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.

  David Brooks

  Jumping, Race, Lust

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• Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

  Pope Francis

  Respect, Peace, Pain

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. January 27, 2015.

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• In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.

  Dan Ariely

  Tattoo, Motivation, Inspiration

  "Beware conflicts of interest". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Gifted Writers, Zombie, Age

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• His voice was an omnipresent cry in our electronic world. His sharp features, majestic looks, and prancing style a vivid etching on the landscape of our minds. Bob Marley was never seen. He was an experience which left an indelible imprint with each encounter. Such a man cannot be erased from the mind. He is part of the collective consciousness of the nation.

  Edward Seaga

  Men, Voice, Style

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• When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.

  Shawn Achor

  Letting Go, People, Challenges

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• As we explore the nature of our gift, our goal is to move toward this kind of giving: cheerful giving that flows gently and easily, kingly giving that flows surely from who we are. As we encounter the questions—Who are we ? What do we love ?—the gift we bring will be easy, because our gift naturally emerges from who we are. The offering we bring is ourselves, just as we are. Our gift is our true nature. There can be no greater gift than this.

  Wayne Muller

  Moving, Offering, Giving

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• Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter.

  Jim George

  People, Leader, Needs

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• When things go wrong in our life and we encounter difficult situations, we tend to regard the situation itself as our problem, but in reality whatever problems we experience come from the side of the mind. If we were to respond to difficult situations with a positive or peaceful mind they would not be problems for us; indeed, we may even come to regard them as challenges or opportunities for growth and development. Problems arise only if we respond to difficulties with a negative state of mind. Therefore, if we want to be free from problems, we must transform our mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Positive, Buddhist, Attitude

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.5, Tharpa Publications US

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• No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Enemy, Firsts, Plans

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• All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Grace, Survival, May

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• The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.

  Pope Francis

  Internet, Possibility, Solidarity

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• Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

  David Bentley Hart

  World, Employment, Consciousness

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