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“The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'”

Should Problem Next Grows Difficult Chance Obstacles Encounters Next Time

Author:Zig Ziglar

“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.”

Source: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

“Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.”

Happens Choices Chance Love Is Active Encounters Construction

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.”

Ifs Looks Doe Important Enough Feelings Eye Chance Brain Events Terrible Hundred Ears Extraordinary Privilege Woods Journalism Encounters Anguish Worms Inadequacy Feelings Of Inadequacy

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.”

Causes Chance Interesting Events Reactions Chains Encounters Coincidence Remarks Inevitability Retrospect Climax Trifling Devious Great Events Chain Reactions Chance Encounters

Book:Down Among the Dead Men

Source: Down Among the Dead Men

“Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.”

Ifs Doe Self Memories Chance Mines Judgment Tools Difficulty Presses Judgement Confused Encounters Lacking Embarrassed Distrust Stunned Chance Encounters

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.”

Source: Can You Forgive Her?

“American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.”

Believe Happens Chance Lucky Encounters Bankers Banality Overjoyed Personal Touch

Book:The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana

Source: The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana