Quotes About Encounters

#1. Not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

Daniel J. Siegel

#2. Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.

Nancy Gibbs

#3. It's raining women's voices
as if they had died
even in memory,
and it's raining you as well-
Marvellous encounters of my life
(o little drops!)

Guillaume Apollinaire

#4. We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible's single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet god. Abraham encounters God when he invites three strangers into his tent.

Jonathan Sacks

#5. Women enjoy sex as much as men...if they were totally satisfied in sexual encounters, they would welcome them.

J.F. Kelly

#6. Commitment to ourselves, our families, and our business is paramount to being successful. Human should be committed to rolling out great products, services and initiatives that impact those personal and professionals encounters which cross our path.

Sameh Elsayed

#7. Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don't have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things ... 'Doctor Who,' I don't really care about at all, I couldn't give a fig about it.

Nick Frost

#9. And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

Charles Kuralt

#10. Encounters are after all merely future farewells and he could live with that as long as they both got happy endings. Even if it meant they didn't get it together.

BeccaAmon

#11. The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence.

Seth Shostak

#12. 'Toy Story' we found, sorta by accident, because we didn't know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.

Pete Docter

#13. Those who find ecstasy do so not by visiting the shrines of civilization but by trudging in the swamps of human destitution and misery. Our literature of ecstasy recounts the dark nights of the soul and encounters with mystics in the slums and in the refugee camps of genocidal wars.

Alphonso Lingis

#14. The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

Hannah Kent

#15. It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.

Robert Motherwell

#16. The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort. How do we practice with difficulty, with our emotions, with the unpredictable encounters of an ordinary day?

Pema Chodron

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

William James

#18. I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

Immanuel Kant

#19. Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth?
The answer is no.

Leonard Nimoy

#20. I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.

Daisy Ridley

#21. Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.

Graham Cooke

#22. Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

Gael Garcia Bernal

#23. The idea of close encounters of the zero'th kind - which is to say, not a close encounter at all, but simply uncovering evidence that someone's out there - dates back to the Victorian era.

Seth Shostak

#24. For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

Charles Traub

#25. There are more than 3500 military and commercial aircraft pilot reports of encounters worldwide; many cases have corroborating radar documentation and multiple witnesses both on the ground and in the air.

Steven M. Greer

#26. So now I imagine, among these Angels and their drained white brides, momentous grunts and sweating, damp furry encounters; or, better, ignominious failures, cocks like three-week-old carrots, anguished fumblings upon flesh cold and unresponding as uncooked fish.

Margaret Atwood

#27. Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Abraham Kaplan

#28. I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

Vin Diesel

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

Abraham H. Maslow

#30. To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one's experience.

Deena Metzger

#31. A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#32. Terrifying encounters with the end? I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you're seventy-five! The remote future will be time enough to anguish over the ultimate catastrophe!

Philip Roth

#33. About 15 percent of adults are having half of all sexual encounters.

Tara Parker-Pope

#34. Chance encounters are often the routes through which opportunities manifest themselves.

Ashwin Sanghi

#35. I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

Rick Yancey

#36. His limited intimate encounters taught him there was considerable effort and occasional begging involved in the removal of women's clothing.

Travis Luedke

#37. I WOULD NOT HAVE RETURNED TO this year of 1966 if I had not experienced one of those life-changing encounters on the road that rise up periodically to let us know that fate remains inexorable in its utter strangeness and its capacity for astonishment. At

Pat Conroy

#38. One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

Alfred Doblin

#39. all of life matters, all work is holy, all moments sacred, all encounters with others encounters with the divine.

Rob Bell

#40. It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters ... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.

Jason Mraz

#41. You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.

Jay McInerney

#42. What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that; you'd be watching an old video called your life.

Frederick Lenz

#43. Man's history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Charles Kuralt

#45. In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

Christopher West

#46. The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.

Robin Marantz Henig

#47. I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

J.K. Rowling

#48. If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

Richard Louv

#49. No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

#50. What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#51. Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

Gerald Edelman

#52. While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.

Frederick Lenz

#53. I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.

Henry David Thoreau

#54. In fact, studies have demonstrated that the 'success rate' of missionary encounters that take place in the home of a friend or family member is five hundred times higher than encounters in an institutional setting or a public place.

Kate Cooper

#55. This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#56. Running was not always the coward's route; it was a matter of survival. The fewer violent encounters one invited, the longer the life.

Marjorie M. Liu

#57. Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.

Randall Mann

#58. Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

Martin Buber

#59. During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.

Jean De La Bruyere

#60. I've never claimed not to have interest in you, Your Grace. As a matter of fact, considering our encounters, I believe it fair to state that I've undoubtedly expressed an interest in you.

Lorraine Heath

#61. Shamans enter the dream world of sub-consciousness to wrestle with demons and rally angels. They return with tales of their encounters which become the myths and legends of their communities.

Jeff Rasley

#62. Taking delight in random encounters that
come our way is a wonderful reminder that
God is in control.

Mel Lawrenz

#63. I have no desire to change things because I am the youngest in my family. I like meeting new people when I travel: these brief and inconsequential encounters have the thrill of beginnings and the sadness of separations.

Edouard Leve

#64. CHAPTER VIII OLIVER WALKS TO LONDON. HE ENCOUNTERS ON THE ROAD, A STRANGE SORT OF YOUNG GENTLEMAN

Charles Dickens

#65. When a woman encounters a man of that quality," Penny continued, solemnly, "she dedicates herself to making herself worthy of him.

Terry Mancour

#66. Heather A. Slomski's stories are downright addictive. I kept promising myself to turn off the light after just one more, and then breaking that promise, beguiled by her cool, measured prose and by the surprises, tensions, and uncanny encounters simmering beneath its elegant surface.

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

#67. When seasoned by the subtleties of accident, harmony, favor, wisdom, and inevitability, luck takes on the cast of serendipity. Serendipity happens when a well-trained mind looking for one things encounters something else: the unexpected.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#68. Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.

Zig Ziglar

#69. Dozens of days, experiences, and encounters have set me on a path I never dreamed possible.

Carlos Wallace

#70. Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

Bruce Henderson

#71. Dasein itself
and this means also its Being-in-the-world
gets its ontological understanding of itself in the first instance from those entities which it itself is not but which it encounters 'within' its world, and from the Being which they possess.

Martin Heidegger

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

George Monbiot

#73. What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature.

Frans Lanting

#74. For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

Donna Tartt

#75. Psychologically speaking (I'll only wheel out the amateur psychology just this once, so bear with me), encounters that call up strong physical disgust or revulsion are often in fact projections of our own faults and weaknesses.

Haruki Murakami

#76. I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into an hour and 30 minutes.

Chris Tucker

#77. Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

Salman Rushdie

#78. When God spoke to Moses and others in the Old Testament, those events were encounters with God. An encounter with Jesus was an encounter with God for the disciples. In the same way an encounter with the Holy Spirit is an encounter with God for you.

Henry Blackaby

#79. They knew her, the graveyard folk, for each of us encounters the Lady on the Grey at the end of our days, and there is no forgetting her.

Neil Gaiman

#80. Oh, well. I don't mind helping you to feel guilty if you must. On the other hand, I should point out that of all our various encounters, today is the only time you have favoured me with two civil words in sequence. I found it quite worrying.

Dorothy Dunnett

#81. Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other

Paulo Coelho

#82. Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.

Raymond Moody

#83. Since I stopped drinking my love life has taken a really serious hit. Romantic encounters that seemed like a really good idea at three o'clock in the morning on the Lower East Side? Less so in sobriety.

Moby

#84. So far removed are these practices from what the average American citizen encounters in his daily life that it takes a huge act of his imagination to believe that it is true;

Richard Wright

#85. There's a saying in the oral tradition of storytelling that when you tell a story, when you give out a story, it is no longer yours; it belongs to everyone who encounters it and everyone who takes it in.

Ishmael Beah

#86. Resentment had erased all ambiguity in our encounters with people like him; we had been polarized into "us" and "them.

Azar Nafisi

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

Susan T. Fiske

#88. Girls were nice to me in the same way that they would be nice to a hamster. I fantasized about wild encounters with females but knew they'd never happen unless my own involvement could somehow go undetected.

Joel Achenbach

#89. He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters.

Paulo Coelho

#90. When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. There's no way humans should have any encounters with crocodiles. You should stay away from them!

Kenneth Kamler

#91. I'd say that the whole 'sitting on the Iron Throne' experience is intended to be a novelty for people who don't have that many encounters with thrones in their day to day lives.

John Bradley-West

#92. I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

Ryan Kwanten

#93. We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

Sharon Salzberg

#94. A mouse when caught in a perilous situation reacts aptly because it has such encounters on a daily basis whereas a lion, which is rarely caught in such situations, is often late in its reaction.

Ashish Jaiswal

#95. We transmit and catch moods from each other in what amounts to a subterranean economy of the psyche in which some encounters are toxic, some nourishing.

Daniel Goleman

#96. Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.

Peter Sloterdijk

#97. Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

Stanislav Grof

#98. the quality of classroom practice that a child encounters has unmatched potential with respect to influencing student learning and achievement. What teachers are doing in classes with students on a daily basis has the greatest potential to influence the academic outcome for students,

Steven Katz

#99. A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.

Lee Siegel

#100. The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God's will and refusing to do it.

Arnold J. Toynbee