Encountering Quotes

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one. - Paul Auster

You don't know what you're going to find when you arrive. There are inaccessible areas. Conditions are difficult. It is incredibly hot. They may be encountering areas where there is no gas available. - Lesly Simmons

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems. - Mark Victor Hansen

While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them. - Emile Durkheim

When it comes to the retiree healthcare crisis, public sector employers are facing many of the same challenges that private companies are encountering with the added complexity of the new GASB 45 requirements. SHPS realized that its CDRHP product, which has been well-received by many large, private employers, was a very good solution for public sector employers as well. - Rishabh Mehrotra

What we are encountering is the anxiety of breaking a trusted habit -- populating desktops with as many applications as possible. People need to start thinking instead in terms of populating networks and having robust, controllable, reliable connections to applications that exist out in a heterogeneous network. That's the dominant market for the next 30 years, and we can lead in that market. - John Slitz

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene. - Chaim Potok

We're seeing ... milder cases overall than people in Asia are encountering. - Jim Hughes

We started looking for someone in L.A., and what we found was that we were encountering the usual suspects. They're Hollywood kids who have been in the business for a few years. We were looking for someone who was a little raw and a little edgier. And we got a tape from New York with this kid on it. The thing that sold us was his face. He has an incredibly expressive face, and it's older than his years. When you sit and you look at him, it already feels like he's carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. He looks like his eyes are a little sad, but he's really bright. At this particular point, there's no Hollywood in him. - Ali LeRoi