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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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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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 next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
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We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
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Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
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Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.
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I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
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I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
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I always believe when you got something to say, that's when you put something out.
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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.
