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

• Diplomats negotiate. That's what I do on my show. So I consider myself a diplomat in showbiz.

  

  Woody Milintachinda
  • Showbiz
  • Diplomats

• I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Metaphor
  • Delicate

• …for thy huggest thy bolster, which men call a Dutch wife in some parts.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Men
  • Wife

• Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth’s many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.

  

  John Updike
  • Good
  • Singing

• We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• 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