Peers Quotes - Page 15

• No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,
  The heroes of old,
  Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
  Of pain, darkness and cold.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain, Hero

  'Prospice' (1864)

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• God is not a magic eight ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for him.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Eight, Giving, Decision

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• We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Light, Darkness, Firsts

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.140, Macmillan

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• If you can forgive yourself then you will no longer see the reflection of your own internal judgement in the faces of the people around you. And if you can do that then suddenly you’ll be in a whole different universe because the universe we all exist in is the one where we’re all so terrified of the judgement of our peers.

  Duncan Trussell

  Reflection, Different Universes, People

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• There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Girl, Horse, School

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• I want to be bigger than everybody else, but I wouldn't want to be so big that people can't accept it. For instance, if you come in with 30-inch-arms, even your own peers aren't going to accept that. I wouldn't want to be that way. I wouldn't want to infinitely become unreal.

  Mike Katz

  People, Want, Arms

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• Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers.

  Jonathan Ive

  Titles, Lenses, Structure

  "9 Things We Learned About Apple From Jony Ive's Latest Interview" by Samuel Gibbs, www.businessinsider.com. June 17, 2014.

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• Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?

  Peter Thiel

  Smart, School, Careers

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.31, Crown Business

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• Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

  Benjamin Percy

  Writing, Views, Empathy

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• Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.

  Charlie Munger

  Giving, Littles, Groups

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• Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.

  Joichi Ito

  School, Independent, College

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• Social media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism, one-to-many, to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people and peers.

  Brian Solis

  Media, People, Information

  Brian Solis (2010). “Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

  Alison Moyet

  Thinking, Priorities, Finding Yourself

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• How happy 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.

  W. H. Auden

  Happiness, Math, Science

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• Leadership: Here is the heart and soul of the matter. If you look to lead, invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. Use the remainder to induce those you 'work for' to understand and practice...lead yourself, lead your supervisors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

  Dee Hock

  Heart, Practice, People

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• Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality into their products. That's 'I can' thinking, which is driven by peer competition and market forces But this approach ignores the far more important question of how the consumer will actually use the device focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can.

  John Maeda

  Thinking, Focus, Competition

  Manifesto by John Maeda, www.esquire.com. September 18, 2008.

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• At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.

  Erik Qualman

  Technology, Thinking, Media

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• In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of his closest friends. But the sculler had to find motivation entirely within himself. No one else cared.

  David Halberstam

  Sports, Morning, Motivation

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• Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

  Paul Collier

  Law, Peer Pressure, Norm

  Paul Collier (2007). “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, p.139, Oxford University Press

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• By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of their Peers, they are either convicted, or acquitted. I have some times thought that we Women are hardly dealt by since strictly speaking, we cannot legally be tried by our Peers, for men are not our Peers, and yet upon their breath our guilt or innocence depends— thus are our privileges in this, as in many other respects tyrannically abridged, and we are forced to yield to necessity.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Men, Yield, Law

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• We are good if our peers think we’re great. But we are great if the real world thinks we’re good.

  David Droga

  Real, Thinking, World

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• Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that you would make it a less compelling school. However, online schools will be as good as their classroom peers only if they are large enough to afford a substantial and ongoing investment.

  John Katzman

  School, Quality, Ongoing

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• If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

  Dana Hill

  Mean, Cutting, Winning

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• Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.

  Bob Wise

  Wise, Teacher, Children

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• We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Canada, Privilege, Wealth

  "It's great up north" by Henry Porter, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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