Esther Peterson Quotes

#1. If the universe doesn't care about us and if we're an accident in a remote corner of the universe, in some sense it makes us more precious. The meaning in our lives is provided by us; we provide our own meaning.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#2. If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

Esther Peterson

#3. I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.

Jessica Pare

#4. Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Jack Canfield

#5. An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

Brian Tracy

#6. A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.

Esther Peterson

#7. You don't do things because of the rewards or because someone may remember you after you are gone. The satisfaction is in the doing. Whether or not someone remembers does not really matter.

Esther Peterson

#8. Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?

Simon Blackburn

#9. I'm not going to tell people how to live their life and I surely wouldn't tell people my life is the way you should be living. People get to choose what they do want to do with their life and I appreciated that.

Abby Wambach

#10. I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

Daniel Pennac

#11. Listen to the extremists - changes come from them.

Esther Peterson

#12. I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

Esther Peterson

#13. Women's place is where they can do the most good.

Esther Peterson

#14. Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

Gloria Steinem