Peers Quotes

• Its kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

  Karen Carpenter

  Nice, People, Trying

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• Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Friendship, Team

  "Unleash the Power Within" seminar, September 2005.

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• Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Reflection, People

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• The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

  John Peers

  Wheels, Squeaky Wheel, Replaced

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• You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

  Andre Agassi

  Mean, Tennis, Ends

  Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.378, Vintage

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• Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.

  John Peers

  Funny, Happy, Dog

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• If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.

  Dee Hock

  Motivation, Character, Over You

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• I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

  Franz Kafka

  Loneliness, Vegetarianism, Alcohol

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• He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Work, Wells, Particular

  'Iolanthe' (1882) act 2

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• I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Afterlife, Get Better, Age

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• I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.

  Ron White

  Comedian, Recognition

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• In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Writing, Found, Wells

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• The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

  William Gilbert

  War, House, Wells

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• My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

  Franz Kafka

  Cheating, Loneliness, Mean

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• The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

  John Peers

  Answers, Helping, Problem

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• The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Law, Liberty

  Winston Churchill (1952). “The Second World War”

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• Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph. D. from Yale.

  Mary Blakely

  Mean, Kids, Yale

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom Motherhood Politics and Humble Pie”, Pocket

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• Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

  Dee Hock

  People, Risk, Trivia

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• Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

  John Milton

  Satan, Pandemonium, Paradise Lost Book 1

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 756 (1667)

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• The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Pressure Groups, People, Peer Pressure

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• My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

  Conrad Hall

  Mean, Winning, Differences

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• When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

  Christine Gregoire

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

  Samuel Butler

  Country, Feelings, Ethics And Morals

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.48, The Floating Press

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• If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

  Horatio Nelson

  Running, Long Ago, Should Have

  Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.353

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• Soderquist's Paradox: There are more horses' asses than horses.

  John Peers

  Horse, Ass, Paradox

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