Peers Quotes - Page 6

• Hermits have no peer pressure.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Solitude

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• The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Home, Technology, Ideas

  "Living In The Present Is A Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.

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• The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Age, Stopping, Employee

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• What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.

  Douglas Adams

  Strong, Groups, Needs

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they simply want what most people want, to be judged by the quality of their skills, not by the color of their skin. But the black conservatives overlook the fact that affirmative action policies were political responses to the pervasive refusal of most white Americans to judge black Americans on that basis.

  Cornel West

  Color, Skills, White

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• The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

  Leonora Carrington

  Eye, Vision, Tasks

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• How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Winning, Paper

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• What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

  Alison Gopnik

  Teenager, Want, Rewards

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• Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

  Alison Gopnik

  Mean, Parent, Leaving

  Alison Gopnik (2016). “The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children”, p.204, Macmillan

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• I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

  Kim Cattrall

  Believe, Expectations, Trying

  "Kim Cattrall's Aha! Moment". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. March 2003.

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• There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

  Eloisa James

  Velvet, Towels, Meetings

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• With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mother, Children, Exercise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

  Leo Tolstoy

  Distance, Eye, Men

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• I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing 9 to 5 was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it’s so rarely in the hands of women.

  Jane Fonda

  Opportunity, Hands, Film

  "Show Me the Women — In Hollywood" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2010.

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• If you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever, and the trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Trying, Peer Pressure

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• All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

  Dionne Warwick

  Dirty, Naughty, Asking

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• I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

  Steve Vai

  Thinking, Artist, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.

  Shania Twain

  Appreciate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

  LL Cool J

  Artist, Careers, People

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• There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Stupid, Kids

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

  Al Gore

  Culture, Peer Review, Scientific Method

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL". Interview with Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Successful, Patterns, Recognition

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.100, Penguin

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• Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.

  Jon Landau

  Art, Men, Rocks

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• For decades, media companies have largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told what to buy, wear or think. Now consumers possess the same ability to produce, distribute and curate content and distribute it to their peers in real time across social media platforms.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Real, Thinking, Media

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• It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

  George McGovern

  War, Fighting, Watches

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