Jordan Peterson (Jordan Bernt Peterson) Quotes

Don't sacrifice who you could be for who you are.

Jordan Peterson

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• The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Team

• We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Years
  • Cutting
  • Traditional

• I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Different
  • Past

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Like

• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Fun
  • Enjoy
  • Princess

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• The only model to follow is pure Islam.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Model
  • Islam
  • Follow

• He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Death
  • Sin
  • Glory

• I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Think
  • Hit
  • Gestures

• It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.

  

  Eason Jordan
  • War
  • Happen
  • Things Happen

• You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • You
  • Cancer
  • Actually

• If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Run
  • Village

• A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Quality
  • Film
  • Realistic

• I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Life
  • Real
  • Want

• I don't really have any big plans for 2008.

  

  Carrie Underwood

• The remedy is worse than the disease.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Disease
  • Worse
  • Remedy

• I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Different

• If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Up
  • World
  • House

• The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • Success
  • Scary

• I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Team
  • Sacrifice
  • Individual

• Don't sacrifice who you could be for who you are.

  

  Jordan Peterson
  • Sacrifice
  • You Are