Peers Quotes - Page 3

• The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers

  James Heckman

  Education, Children, Opportunity

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

  Jay Baer

  Inspirational, Media, Social

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• I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Athlete, Relate

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• Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

  Joni Mitchell

  Block, Rotation, Paint

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• Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.

  Ernest Gaines

  Country, Believe, Aunt

  Ernest J. Gaines (2004). “A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel”, p.255, Vintage

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• Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring.
  But who am I that I should have the best of anything?
  Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,
  ...beer is good enough for me.

  Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves

  Drinking, Beer, Men

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• Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

  James Black

  Creativity, Independent, Science

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• Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

  Felix Dennis

  Self Esteem, Hands, Feds

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.232, Penguin

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• Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Done, Enmity

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.786, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Thinking, Achievement

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• If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.

  Sean Penn

  Sarcastic, Disgusting, Ifs

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• Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

  David Riesman

  Communication, Media, Gossip

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• Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

  Alexander Pope

  Father, Beer, Soul

  Alexander Pope (1854). “The Poetical Works”, p.105

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• Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers have objections the author must answer them or change the article to take reviewers' objections into account. Under the IPCC review process, the authors are at liberty to ignore criticisms.

  Richard Lindzen

  Liberty, Criticism, Answers

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• You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a voice. Social networking is changing how we interact - and it can change our world. You are in touch with peers from around the world. You understand the power of instant communication. I appeal to you to use that power for the common good, the power of communication and the power of networking.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Communication, Our World, Ideas

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• When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.

  Noel Pearson

  Memorable, White, Australia

  "Gough Whitlam's Indigenous and reforming legacy hailed at memorial" by Bridie Jabour, Michael Safi, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2014.

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• It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Safety, Justice

  'Masters of Our Fate' Speech to Joint Session of the U.S. Congress, delivered 26 December 1941, Washington, D.C.

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• And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Eye, Glasses, Giving

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people.

  Doug Flutie

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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• Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Goal, Support

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• The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Jobs, Winning, Government

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• Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.

  Antonino Zichichi

  Doubt, Research, Global Warming

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• t century, hundreds of millions - and eventually billions - of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Hydrogen, Energy, Internet

  "‘The Empathic Civilization’: Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era" by Jeremy Rifkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult....Many young teachers have a tendency to seek popularity, resorting to tactics that can create endless problems.

  Jim Brown

  Teacher, Teaching, Age

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• To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Thinking, Chess, Way

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