Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

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• I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Love
  • Job
  • Amazing

• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • High
  • Want
  • Problems

• I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Job
  • Want
  • Nice

• My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Job
  • Answers
  • Questions

• May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • May
  • Perfect

• The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Problems
  • Habit

• An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• I came here when I was 20. I came to go to school, but I ended up working for Halston as an assistant. That happened in a very strange way. My father had a meeting with Halston. And my father said to me, 'Join me. I want you to meet this amazing American designer.' And I happened to just tag along, and Halston offered me a job.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Up
  • School
  • Job

• My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Job
  • Myself

• I had to get over a Southern accent and go through a lot of obstacles. But I love my job, and I love what I do. If it's something that your parents are pushing you into, it's never going to be rewarding.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Love
  • Job
  • Parents

• I got into one of the schools I applied to because of the essay I wrote about Holly Hunter's character in 'Broadcast News.' She's the only female producer on this news network, and she's really good at her job, but she allots time in her day to just sit at her desk and cry. And then she's just back to work. I find that really effective.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Character

• My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Job
  • Dare

• I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake up and go to a job.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

  

  Larry Page
  • Work
  • Job
  • Me

• No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job....Poetry..remains one person talking to another....no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Job
  • Free

• He would make a good manager, but he had a little too much integrity to survive in a top job.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Good
  • Job
  • Integrity

• But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Job
  • Cool

• Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Always
  • Journalism
  • Obvious

• I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

  

  Peter Ustinov
  • People
  • Believe
  • Friends

• An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Music
  • Teach
  • Gospel

• Money isn't always going to make it happen. It's important to be around people that have the right kind of attitude, being happy about what you're doing.

  

  Eli Manning
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Job
  • Problems
  • Grace