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Quotes About Peer

A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle or something somewhere on my body. That's okay
~ Robert Downey Jr.
Junior decided to look elsewhere and finally selected Brown because three close friends had chosen to attend it.
~ Ron Chernow
There is a metaphor somewhere in the story Groucho liked to tell about an encounter with one of his most illustrious peers, W. C. Fields. Fields took Groucho up to his attic, where the astonished Groucho discovered, as he later described it, "$50,000 worth of booze up there in boxes. I said 'Bill, why do you have all that whiskey up here? Don't you know prohibition is over?' 'Well,' he said, 'It may come back.'" In
~ Lee Siegel
should be seen as a credible peer by clients and prospects, not as a vendor, salesperson, or subordinate.  client
~ Alan Weiss
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
We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
I appreciate the power of a White House bully pulpit - but kids listen and learn primarily from other kids. If your son's friend tells him that the apple is better than the fries, he's more likely to listen.
~ Dean Ornish
Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.
~ Jim McKay
Hutch looked at him
~ Louis L'Amour
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
Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough.
~ Kool Moe Dee
There were in this strange nature, depths so awful and profound that it was not to be sounded or to be judged as others were. But one thing could have melted or caused the unconquerable spirit to bend, and this was the overwhelming passion of love--not a slight, tender feeling, but a great and powerful one, such as could be awakened but by a being of as strong and deep a nature as itself, one who was in all things its peer.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
The thing I believe is we are good if our peers think we're great. But we are great if the real world thinks we're good. And there's a huge difference.
~ David Droga
When Bruhn and Wolf first presented their findings to the medical community, you can imagine the kind of skepticism they faced. They went to conferences where their peers were presenting long rows of data arrayed in
~ Malcolm Gladwell
all this is quite a ways from auto makers being able to rig markets or force consumers to take what they want them to take . And the reason ; simply ; is that there is no accounting for tastes .... when it comes to dictating , the consumer is the dictator without peer
~ John Brooks
It seems to me that your sense of other people's awfulness might be compensating for your own sense of inferiority and fear of rejection. You rationalize the rejection of your peers by telling yourself it comes from other people's deficiencies rather than your own. They can't understand your philosophy or your ideas.
~ Elif Batuman
FWAs increase retention/reduce turnover. The telecommuters in Bloom's study quit their jobs at about half the rate of their peers in the office.
~ Armin A. Brott
Excessively criticize the work of your peers, thus unrealistically raising the bar for your work.
~ Seth Godin
Believing everything your child does wrong is entirely down to the company he or she keeps.
~ Paulo Coelho
There's a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large.
~ Sebastian Thrun
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
~ Charles Lamb
To mount and descend in the words themselves-this is a poet's life. To mount too high or descend too low, is allowed in the case of poets, who bring earth and sky together. Must the philosopher alone be condemned by his peers always to live on the ground floor?
~ Gaston Bachelard
The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.
~ Dick Dale
King as thou art, free speech at least is mine. To make reply; in this I am thy peer.
~ Sophocles