Top 199 Encounter Quotes

While I don’t necessarily believe the cliche that ‘everything happens for a reason,’ I do believe that every encounter, every situation, and every challenge I’ve experienced has shaped me into the woman I am today. And I am proud to say that I have never backed down from life’s challenges.

I’ve just grown up a lot and started to encounter some of the big decisions of life in terms of what career I wanted to do and figuring out personal relationships and things.

The worst thing is where the world people experience before they go into the theatre is far more interesting than what they encounter on stage.

Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself – be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.

The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. ‘Carnivale’ required that of me, and it was really hard.

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you’re supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.

The thing that has appealed to me most about this career is getting to encounter and interact with the unexpected.

I’m a simple country neuroscientist, not an expert on democracy, but I do know something about how the brain works and how opinion-reinforcing bubbles can distort the picture of reality we build from the information we encounter on a daily basis.

Every film is a human encounter. It’s people trying to collaborate and create something together.

It’s clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.

No one drives through life with blackout windows; most of us are affected, in some way or another, by the love and hate we encounter in others.

Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.

When you encounter people in life – like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be – you make these incredibly quick, quite intricate decisions about people based on very small amounts of coded information. We’re good at that.

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.

I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother’s employer’s family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home.

If parliament and government work together in their respective constitutional roles, and respect due processes, we will maximise our chances of making the right decisions as we encounter the many challenges, risks and opportunities Brexit poses for our country.

The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.

It matters so much that from a very early age we encounter different kinds of different people, because that’s what real life should be about as well.

A collection is, by my lights, a chance to build a universe, an overarching ecosystem. But it’s common enough to encounter a hodgepodge instead, where flashes of brilliance are undercut by clunkers.

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

While the Ark Encounter will be able to accommodate 16,000 guests per day, our consultant’s research has shown that we could possibly expect more than that during the first few weeks of opening, especially during the summer time frame.

The main thing I don’t like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

Ask any deer camp old-timer for a foolproof recipe, and you’re likely to encounter a lot of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup. There is a reason for that: Mushrooms plus cream plus game meat adds up to a perfect trinity of flavors.

There’s always been a lot of interest in the tech community about how to foster innovation and creativity – both within a company but also in the ecosystem of a tech cluster. In both cases, creating opportunities for people who don’t encounter each other normally to meet and talk is key.

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There’s nothing to match that chance encounter.

I would not want to do one-episode television – that’s just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor into an arena where he can really stretch.

Interestingly, despite being based on a real encounter, ‘Batla House’ has a strong mass appeal to it too.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

I get asked one question a lot: ‘What celebrity encounter would render you starstruck?’ The answer is simple – anyone who’s ever strapped on a Redskins helmet, much less coached them to three Super Bowls.

The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.

Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.

You will definitely encounter lots of resistance on the road to super success, but don’t let others stop you from reaching your goals.

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

My first encounter with Cyborg was through the ‘Teen Titans’ cartoon.

In Canada, women’s rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality – not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.

We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don’t want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don’t want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

The main experiential determinants of moral development seem to be amount and variety of social experience, the opportunity to take a number of roles and to encounter other perspectives.

Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground.

Don’t give up at the first hurdle you encounter.

If you’ve ever talked to a special agent that you know well, and you ask he or she about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they’ll almost always give you the same answer: ‘Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.’

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I’m doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I’ll encounter, how long it’s going to take, or where I’m going to end up.

I’m particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it’s that area I’m very alive to. And I don’t encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it’s about negotiating with that illusion because, oftentimes, you encounter people who have encountered you, but you haven’t encountered them. It’s a little weird to find your footing.

It’s always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the creationists. It’s a dilemma that I encounter frequently in another subject area: Does it make sense to bandy words with someone from the UFO community?