"Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world."
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"Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile."
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"We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror."
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"Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!"
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"You can't anticipate in the room the riches of what you encounter when you're location hunting for a movie."
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"I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening."
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"We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance)."
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"What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man's emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it."
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"What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now."
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"Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter."
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"When we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense."
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"There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!"
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"Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any reference to George Bush, people only nod to Berlusconi, saying","We understand how it is - we have one, too."
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"The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have found that many times, my students are experiencing problems that I myself have experienced in my work, but the solution is different because they're different people."
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"Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high."
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"Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter."
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"When you meet anyone, treat the even as a holy encounter."
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"Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?"
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"When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me."
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"I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter."
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