Peers Quotes - Page 19

• There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.

  Jodi Picoult

  Letting Go, Body, Hanging On

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• At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of a mystery. Some possibility that included her--separate from her present life and without its limitations. A secret. Riding in the car with her father, she would look out at other cars full of people she'd never seen, any one of whom she might someday meet and love, and would feel the world holding her making its secret plans.

  Jennifer Egan

  Father, Sleep, Night

  Jennifer Egan (2009). “Look at Me: A Novel”, p.73, Anchor

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• "You're important," Nicholas interrupted quietly catching her face and turning her to peer at him. "You're the most important thing in the world to me Jo. I love you. Let me have this moment."

  Lynsay Sands

  Love You, Important, World

  "The Renegade Hunter". Book by Lynsay Sands, September 29, 2009.

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• It didn't help matters that I was shy and wore glasses. I was never one to stand out in the crowd. I liked to stay in corners. And I was happiest when I was alone reading. That and the good grades I got in school had doomed any chance of being popular with my peers. So it was a foregone conclusion that boys like Hardy were never going to take notice of me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Reading, School, Boys

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.367, St. Martin's Press

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• We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

  Seneca the Younger

  Heart, Thinking, Views

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• Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.

  Martin Gardner

  Real, Science, Self

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• I want to be bigger than everybody else, but I wouldn't want to be so big that people can't accept it. For instance, if you come in with 30-inch-arms, even your own peers aren't going to accept that. I wouldn't want to be that way. I wouldn't want to infinitely become unreal.

  Mike Katz

  People, Want, Arms

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• Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers.

  Jonathan Ive

  Titles, Lenses, Structure

  "9 Things We Learned About Apple From Jony Ive's Latest Interview" by Samuel Gibbs, www.businessinsider.com. June 17, 2014.

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• Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?

  Peter Thiel

  Smart, School, Careers

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.31, Crown Business

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• Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

  Benjamin Percy

  Writing, Views, Empathy

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• Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.

  Charlie Munger

  Giving, Littles, Groups

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• Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.

  Joichi Ito

  School, Independent, College

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• Social media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism, one-to-many, to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people and peers.

  Brian Solis

  Media, People, Information

  Brian Solis (2010). “Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

  Alison Moyet

  Thinking, Priorities, Finding Yourself

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• There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Girl, Horse, School

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• If you can forgive yourself then you will no longer see the reflection of your own internal judgement in the faces of the people around you. And if you can do that then suddenly you’ll be in a whole different universe because the universe we all exist in is the one where we’re all so terrified of the judgement of our peers.

  Duncan Trussell

  Reflection, Different Universes, People

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• We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Light, Darkness, Firsts

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes. But we walk a narrow path with pitfalls on either side. If we spend all our time developing equipment, we risk the appellation of "plumber," and if we merely use the tools developed by others, we risk the censure of our peers for being parasitic.

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  Dream, Hero, Science

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• Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

  Daniel Defoe

  Pride, President, Firsts

  Daniel Defoe (1843). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”, p.19

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• Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not.

  A. E. Housman

  Hurt, Drinking, Men

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62

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• Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their own. Such sincerely held beliefs, peer pressures, and the harsh demands that the work itself places on time and energy all tend to discourage such people from acquiring a similarly thorough knowledge of alternative policies and the need to discuss them.

  Amory Lovins

  Technology, Thorough Knowledge, People

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• In my more than 60 years as a member of the American scientific community, including service as president of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society, I have never witnessed a more disturbing corruption of the peer-review process than the events that led to this IPCC report.

  Frederick Seitz

  Years, Community, President

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• The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Assessment, Energy, Research

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• A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.

  Tony Orlando

  Falling In Love, Real, Giving

  MSNBC.com Chat, www.nbcnews.com. October 15, 2013.

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• God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Eight, Giving, Decision

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