Quotes About Peer

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

Teenage drinking has been declining since 1999, but students vastly overestimate their classmates' use of alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes. For example, a study conducted at a Midwestern high school when teenage alcohol use was peaking found that students believed that 92% of their peers Frank alcohol and 85% smoked cigarettes. When researchers surveyed the school to unearth the actual statistics, they learned that 47% of students had consumed alcohol and 17% smoked.

if you want people to comply with some norm or rule, it is a good strategy to inform them (if true) that most other people comply.

The bottom line is that Humans are easily nudged by other Humans. Why? One reason is that we like to conform. Doing What Others Do

Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.

teenagers are almost a different species than the rest of us, particularly in social situations.

I call it Dante's Syndrome," John said. I had never heard him call it any such thing. "Meaning I think Dave and I gained the ability to peer into Hell. Only it turns out Hell is right here, it's all through us and around us and in us like the microbes that swarm through your lungs and guts and veins. Hey, look! An owl!" We all looked. It was an owl, all right.

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

What we're really trying to do is have heterogeneous systems really become the foundation of our computing going forward. And that's the idea that you make every processor and every accelerator a peer processor.

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

Disciplined investors who rely on low-cost index funds for the long term have done better than most of their peers and the professionals."

Each individual should be able to make good decisions without peer preassure.

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.

for the most part, my peers, like me, have embarked on the eternal compromise that is dealing with a toddler. We are no longer inexperienced, we are no longer naively confident that our superb parenting skills will produce the perfectly well-behaved mini-adult, we are willing to admit that for the most part we simply want to get through the day. We have been broken in. So we pick our battles.

As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial.

Así pues, solemos seguir la corriente de aquellas personas de nuestro entorno a las que nos parecemos.

Most people go along with the crowd. They do things because everybody else does it.

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.

Whenever we haven't got enough information to make decisions for ourselves, we have a habit of copying the behaviour of those around us.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.

More plausible suspects in our mystery are the things that students collectively bring with them to school, ranging from(on the positive side of the ledger) academic encouragement at home and private funding for "extras" to (on the negative side) crime, drugs, and disorder. Whom you go to school with matters a lot.