Top 24 Quotes About First Encounters
#1. What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#2. Paul said in the second epistle ... the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine ... they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.
Jan Karon
#3. With no clear vision there can be no clear future.
Gavin Mills
#4. Relax,' she said. 'There's nothing wrong with a slow, awkward beginning. The text for the whole relationship, the sustaining mythos, is built in the first few encounters. The whirl of emotions, the push and pull. So the more of this kind of material we generate, the better.
Jonathan Lethem
#5. Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
Jeff Bezos
#6. Yeah, the only thing I'm sure of right now is that I'm about to fucking freak.
T.J. Klune
#7. I'm aware that couples tend to embellish 'how we met' folklore with all kinds of detail and significance. We shape and sentimentalise these first encounters into creation myths to reassure ourselves and our offspring that it was somehow 'meant to be'.
David Nicholls
#8. Shall we not perish wretchedest of all, If in defiance of the law we cross A monarch's will? - weak women, think of that, Not framed by nature to contend with men. Remember
Sophocles
#9. Sometimes the answer we need is in our heart. We just have to listen to it.
Abbi Glines
#10. A worthy life involves loving as loved folks do, sharing the ridiculous mercy God spoiled us with first. (It really is ridiculous.) It means restoring people, in ordinary conversations and regular encounters. A worthy life means showing up when showing up is the only thing to do.
Jen Hatmaker
#11. My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.
Max Lucado
#12. We are each unique, just like everyone else.
Bob Dailey
#13. Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.
Aaron Tippin
#14. But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
Utah Phillips
#15. 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
#16. Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.
Zig Ziglar
#17. 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
#20. When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better and more altruistic than any primate that I know.
Frans De Waal
#21. "The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."
Peter Drucker
#22. 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
#23. You cannot live with inner tranquility and peace when you hate others.
Debasish Mridha
#24. It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.
Margaret Mead
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