A list created by: Lee Sonogan
Maybe the best psychologist and professor of psychology in the world. His main areas of study are social, abnormal and personality psychology. Just like many new people I find to write about, I found him on YouTube in various types of interviews and podcast clips. If you like this following list of quotes, I recommend searching this guy up on YouTube if you have never heard of him since now.
- “Watch people like a hawk, and when they do something good, tell them.” – Jordan Peterson
- “Remember that what you do not know is more important than what you already know.” – Jordan Peterson
- “You’re going to pay a price for everything you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.” – Jordan Peterson
- “The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.” – Jordan Peterson
- “If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.” – Jordan Peterson
- “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.” – Jordan Peterson
- “There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.” – Jordan Peterson
- “You have to be a monster to stay alive.” – Jordan Peterson
- “You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.” – Jordan Peterson
- “By changing what you cling to in the present, you can alter the future.” – Jordan Peterson
- “Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to motivate you over what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles.” – Jordan Peterson
- “Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care of yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination.” – Jordan Peterson
- “Be precise in your speech.” – Jordan Peterson
- “Do the things which make you strong. Stop doing the things which make you weak (unless you want to be weak).” – Jordan Peterson
- “You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.” – Jordan Peterson
- “You cannot aim yourself at anything if you are completely undisciplined and untutored.” – Jordan Peterson
- “Do not allow yourself to become arrogant or resentful.” – Jordan Peterson
- “We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.” – Jordan Peterson
- “We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.” – Jordan Peterson
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“Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.” – Jordan Peterson
Currently touring for his new book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Next year he will be in Australia. Having a look at the prices just before writing this, it is mostly sold out in Melbourne. I will have to buy his book or find an audiobook in the near future.