Peers Quotes - Page 5

• I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Thinking, Imagination, Balloons

  Jeanne Marie Laskas (2010). “Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm”, p.84, Bantam

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• How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents.

  Kevin Leman

  Children, Years, Play

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• Go to a playground: Little girls get called 'bossy' all the time, a word that's almost never used for boys. And that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce. When a man does a good job, everyone says, 'That's great.' When a woman does that same thing, she'll get feedback that says things like, 'Your results are good, but your peers just don't like you as much' or 'maybe you were a little aggressive.'

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Girl, Jobs, Boys

  "'Lean In': Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Explains What's Holding Women Back". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

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• The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Beautiful, Song, Paris

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• The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group.

  Tony Robbins

  Reflection, Expectations, Inner Strength

  "Who Are You Hanging Out With?" by Mercenary Trader, www.businessinsider.com. August 7, 2014.

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• If there’s one reason we have done better than of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience.

  Jeff Bezos

  Years, Space, Done

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• Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems
  And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams
  All your friends and peers and family solemnly tell you you will
  Have to grow up be an adult yeah be bored and unfulfilled
  Oh when no ones yet explained to me exactly what's so great
  About slaving 50 years away on something that you hate, about meekly shuffling down the path of mediocrity
  Well if that's your road then take it but it's not the road for me.

  Frank Turner

  Dream, Growing Up, Teenage

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• Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Peer Pressure, Pressure

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• In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Independent, Grandfather, Research

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• Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.

  Robin Olds

  Attitude, Eye, Self Confidence

  Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus, Robin Olds (2010). “Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds”, p.291, Macmillan

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• No one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one. You be the leader. Choose good friends and resist peer pressure together.

  Richard G. Scott

  Strong, Mistake, Good Friend

  "Making the Right Choices". Speech at the General conferences of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 1994.

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• Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.

  Sandy Berger

  Powerful, School, Quality

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• The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

  Robert Grudin

  Goal

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

  Scott Stossel

  Ducks, People, Paddling

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• To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.

  Marty Neumeier

  Comfort, Needs, Approval

  Marty Neumeier (2005). “The Brand Gap, Revised Edition”, p.76, Peachpit Press

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• To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

  Steve Almond

  Kindness, Mistake, Looks

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• Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the redemption they're looking for is of a more lasting kind. They are one another's peers; who else can really judge them?

  Nancy Gibbs

  Mean, Play, Judging

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.563, Simon and Schuster

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• The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Vision, Fields

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.341, Princeton University Press

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• We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Parent, Today

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are building a special capability at Schering-Plough to respond to these and other challenges with innovation, speed and flexibility. We aspire to continue being the company delivering the most positive change of any in our peer group, as we work to deliver our Turnaround and advance our six- to eight-year Action Agenda for transformational change.

  Fred Hassan

  Eight, Years, Challenges

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• There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.

  Jerry Nachman

  War, Thinking, Iraq

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• As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under any circumstances. Their fibers are radioactive, and even the Queen's selfies to the pool boy get logged.

  Edward Snowden

  Queens, Boys, Long

  "The NSA and Its Willing Helpers". Interview with Jacob Appelbaum and Laura Poitras, www.spiegel.de. July 08, 2013.

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• The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

  Ernest Istook

  School, Kids, Parent

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• I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Together, Actors, Enjoy

  "Exclusive: Sigourney Weaver Talks ABDUCTION, VAMPS and IT IS WHAT IT IS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 23, 2011.

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• I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Drama, School, Discouraged

  "Talk Asia" with Anna Coren, edition.cnn.com. July 6, 2011.

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