Peter A. Levine Quotes

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

Peter A. Levine

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• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Dark Side

• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Way
  • Government
  • Tyranny

• I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Ryan Gosling

• I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Audience

• Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Desk

• I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Door

• To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Nature

• Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Alone

• We're in Sarah Palin's 'targeted' list, but the thing is that the way she has it depicted, we're in the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Action
  • Gun

• Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Bitter

• Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

  

  Avicenna
  • Health

• However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practise to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • People
  • May
  • Respect

• It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

  

  Livy
  • Up

• Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Knowledge

• I like down-to-earth people.

  

  Amos Lee
  • People
  • Earth

• I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Earth
  • Woman
  • Last Night

• [Fall of the Berlin Wall] is a reminder that the commitment of the United States, to Europe is enduring and it's rooted in the values we share; our commitment to democracy, our commitment to rule of law, our commitment to the dignity of all people in our own countries and around the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Law

• I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.

  

  Jakob Dylan
  • Hope
  • Balance

• A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

  

  Gene Roddenberry
  • Life

• Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

  

  Peter A. Levine
  • Earth
  • Hell
  • Trauma