Peers Quotes - Page 18

• Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Criticism, Path, Popularity

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• I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill was an abysmal failure in his early school years. Byron, that revolutionary student, had to compensate for a club foot; Demosthenes for a stutter; and Homer was blind. Socrates couldn't manage his wife, and infuriated his countrymen. And what about Jesus, if we need an ultimate example of failure with one's peers? Or an ultimate example of love?

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love, Jesus, School

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.

  Don DeLillo

  War, Men, Glasses

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• At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.

  Lanford Wilson

  Hate, Drama, Writing

  "The Critic On My Shoulder" by Lanford Wilson, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1996.

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• It's hard for these athletes to stay healthy. They are constantly being bombarded with unhealthy advertising. Peer pressure can override the body's demand for health. Being healthy goes beyond 'not being sick' (where all lab reports indicate health), to feeling optimistic, energetic, strong and happy with their bodies. Teaching them to take charge of their bodies is a job of coaching. Help them gain discipline in conditioning, nutrition and attitude/emotional control.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Strong, Jobs

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• We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.

  Joe Paterno

  Leadership, Sports, People

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• What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Book, Feelings, Delight

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• If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

  Margaret Mead

  Motivational, Teacher, Children

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• Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. Use the remainder to induce those you 'work for' to understand and practice...lead yourself, lead your supervisors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

  Dee Hock

  Heart, Practice, People

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• My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

  William Golding

  Past, Journey, Hiking

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• Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?

  Bill Watterson

  Kids, Boys, Scary

  "It's a Magical World". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1996.

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• A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Sibling, Believe

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.63, Random House

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• I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.

  John Green

  Kids, People, Way

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.

  Andre Breton

  People, Secret, Insane

  "First Manifesto of Surrealism". Book by Andre Breton, 1924.

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• The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Sex

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• No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,
  The heroes of old,
  Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
  Of pain, darkness and cold.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain, Hero

  'Prospice' (1864)

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• Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

  Li Ka-shing

  Strong, Inspiration, Innovation

  "6 skills of self-made millionaires everyone should use" by Adam Toren, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2016.

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• We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Disappointment, Pressure, Rage

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• I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

  John Kennedy Toole

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.185, LSU Press

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• They separate us into groups. The Ringleaders and the Others. I belong to the Ringleaders because my weak, pathetic, traitorous, fundamentally base peers point to me when someone asks them who is in charge.

  Melina Marchetta

  Groups, Weak, Asks

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• At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Self, Risk

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• When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

  E. B. White

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

  Alain de Botton

  Believe, Eye, Intelligent

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• My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me." -Lillian Bowman

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dark, Dancer, Handsome

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• A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.

  Anna Godbersen

  Order, Dry, Staff

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