Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Eugene H. Peterson

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• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Truth Is

• I live for the text. It's my job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Live
  • Job
  • Text

• There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Reason
  • Seems
  • Medication

• A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Success
  • Struggle

• Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Just
  • Fame

• I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • World
  • Technology
  • Ideas

• You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

  

  Johnny Cash
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Work
  • Growth

• Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Judging

• I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dog

• God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

  

  Mary Astell
  • God
  • Design

• Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

  

  Ken Hill
  • Music
  • Art

• They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

  

  William Broad Generation X
  • Money
  • American
  • Rock

• Be more ambitious. Do your homework. There's no easy way around this.

  

  Anthony McCarten

• I can contribute, be valuable, and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

  

  Liya Kebede

• The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

  

  John Woolman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Universe

• For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Wisdom
  • Ignorance

• Listen to what your higher wisdom has to say about how you can deepen your participation in the global shift-through personal healing, changing your worldview, or finding ways to help others and the environment. This is how you can both heal yourself and help humanity. At their deepest level, the two are joined and ready to awaken to a new world.

  

  Edmund Bourne
  • Wisdom
  • Environment
  • Humanity

• If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.

  

  Dan Webster
  • May
  • Want
  • Door

• I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Doing
  • Silly
  • Gift

• More than anything, I just think about what roles I take on and make sure that it's really something that I feel passionate about if I'm going to leave home and go work.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • Work
  • Home

• Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Wisdom
  • Conditions