Peers Quotes - Page 9

• I am not a climatologist, but I don't think any of the other witnesses are either. I do work in the related field of atomic, molecular and optical physics. I have spent my professional life studying the interactions of visible and infrared radiation with gases - one of the main physical phenomena behind the greenhouse effect. I have published over 200 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals.

  William Happer

  Thinking, Paper, Radiation

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• When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

  Adam Duritz

  Play, People, Groups

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• There are three kinds of feedback and organizations must utilize all three to be effective:
  1. Evaluation. This rates you against standards and peers. It lets you know where you stand.
  2. Coaching. This information helps you get better and learn. It is an engine for learning.
  3. Appreciation. Most desire for feedback is usually for appreciation. It motivates us.

  Sheila Heen

  Appreciation, Organization, Coaching

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• Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, Careers, Shoes

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• When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.

  Yolanda Adams

  Thinking About You, Winning, Records

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• If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.

  Henry Cloud

  Attitude, Expectations, Accountability

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• I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth's ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.

  Brad Leithauser

  Air, Average, Long Ago

  "Reading Your Friends’ Novels" by Brad Leithauser, www.newyorker.com. January 07, 2013.

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• Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Exercise, Thinking

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• All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

  David Mixner

  Past, Journey, Hiv

  "David Mixner's life in Clinton, gay politics" by Edward Guthmann, www.sfgate.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career.

  Jack Welch

  Skills, Careers, Boss

  "Jack Welch on the one skill that can make or break your career" by Jack Welch, www.businessinsider.com. July 16, 2015.

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• You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part.

  Marc Forster

  Fulfilling, Presses

  Interview with Octavio Molina, www.askmen.com.

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• You don't need to compromise your standards to be accepted by good friends. The more obedient you arethe more the Lord can help you overcome temptation. You can also help others because they will feel your strength. Let them know about your standards by consistently living themNo 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". Richard G. Scott's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. October 1994.

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• Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

  Seamus Heaney

  Awards, Judging, Giving

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• I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Drug, Culture, Rooms

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• It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

  Zac Hanson

  Jobs, Nice, Who Cares

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• The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly.

  Daniel Levitin

  Book, Numbers, Nero

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• You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group dwindles and you start seeing your peers buying houses and getting corporate jobs. So that can be discouraging.

  J. Robbins

  Jobs, House, Support

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

  Andre Agassi

  Applause, Persons

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• Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe opinions, and the like. Children should be taught at an early age what constitutes evidence, how to detect biases or distortions in newspaper accounts, and that there exist hierarchies of information sources. In the medical field, for example, a controlled experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal is a better source than a blog by the Ginseng Growers Association, promoting the health benefits of their own product.

  Daniel Levitin

  Children, Age, Benefits

  "Daniel J. Levitin Q&A: 'We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2015.

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• A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Disappointment, School

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• It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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• The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.

  Terri E Apter

  Mother, Father, Moving

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• The comfort of our peer-connections is reflected in our most honest and direct hand-holding. When we trip, they are the first ones to pull us back up.

  Sara Shandler

  Friendship, Hands, Comfort

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• Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see her coming, if they happen to be with friends, because to greet or be greeted by their mothers in the presence of peers is to acknowledge having been (and perhaps still being) a baby.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• [Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

  Raymond S. Moore

  School, Creative, Parent

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