Quotes About Encounters

Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.

This new awareness is frequently a result of encounters with feeling individuals who have been lucky enough to grow up surrounded by love and respect, who have had a less troubled childhood, who have experienced pleasure and freedom and have thus been able to lead easier, happier lives.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

You never know which people will affect your life.

I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.

Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner.

For more than 40 years now, relentlessly, I have been pursuing brief encounters with the great and the good.

It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.

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?

When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.

None of us is responsible for the wonderful people we don't meet; we're only lucky when we do meet them.

That's the consequence of not defaulting to truth. If you don't begin in a state of trust, you can't have meaningful social encounters.

Markopolos sees his mistake now, with the benefit of over a decade of hindsight. But in the midst of things, the same brilliant mind that was capable of unraveling Madoff's deceptions was incapable of getting people in positions of responsibility to take him seriously. That's the consequence of not defaulting to truth. If you don't begin in a state of trust, you can't have meaningful social encounters.

Throughout the majority of human history, encounters—hostile or otherwise—were rarely between strangers.

She traveled the world, and turned into the person she could be in other places with people she would never see again.

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly's wings that triggers a hurricane.

Life, of course, is full of people you discover you like a lot and then never see again.

The number of lives that enter our own is incalculable.

Así eran las vidas: cuando sus caminos se cruzaban, quedaban alteradas para siempre por el encuentro, unas veces de una manera leve, casi invisible, y otras de forma tan profunda que ya nada podía ser después igual. El residuo de otras vidas nos contagia, y nosotros a nuestra vez lo transmitimos a quienes encontramos más adelante

We've all met one or two women, I daresay, it would have been better if we hadn't met." "Now there," observed Cullingford Abbot, "we have a short history of mankind expressed with admirable terseness.

In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.

In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.

You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.