Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.

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• I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Home
  • Values
  • Warrior

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Education
  • Focus

• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Tree

• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Identity

• The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Know
  • Judge
  • Writer

• Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

  

  Walter Raleigh

• 革命战争是群众的战争，只有动员群众才能进行战争，只有依靠群众才能进行战争。

  

  Mao Zedong

• A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Dream

• Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Power
  • Opinion

• I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Business
  • Hair

• I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.

  

  Lydia Lunch

• The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • World
  • Risk

• My son, Arzhel, is two, and he eats vegetables twice a day. We have a vegetable garden on our farm in the Southwest, and he gets two baskets, one over each arm, and says, 'Garden, Papa!' and then he eats what he picks.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Son
  • Garden

• In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • America
  • Magic
  • Goddess

• When I read comics, they were dense stories. When you put them down, there was a sense of having gotten a great deal from them.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Great

• It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

  

  John Phillips The Mamas & The Papas
  • Life
  • Death
  • Victory

• Four personalities are bound to clash.

  

  John Deacon Queen

• When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Mind
  • Problem
  • Brain

• An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Help
  • Idea
  • Expression

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• 'The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.'

  

  Marc Bloch
  • Good
  • Lies

• In my 33rd year, I was called to play Jesus.

  

  Jim Caviezel
  • Jesus

• There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Jesus
  • Followers
  • Beginners