Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.
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When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
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I think we can all learn things if we really want to. It's fascinating how that can get expedited when you have a support system around you.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.
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It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.
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I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.
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Know the business, learn the business, own something.
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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
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The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.
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I don't think about being tired, I don't think about my technique. I just try to break their will.
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I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.
