Peers Quotes - Page 2

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

  John Peers

  Horse, Ass, Paradox

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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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• 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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• I've always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Team, Race, People

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• People will envy you to the extent that you start out with a group of people and you rise up the organization faster than them. Get over what your peers are thinking about you because your peers are also your competitors.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Thinking About You, Organization, People

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• Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the scientific process would be "make an error and go to trial." Einstein did not arrive at E=mc2 in his first attempt. If he were working in the state of Virginia under Cuccinelli today, he could be jailed for his initial mistakes and perhaps never achieve that landmark equation.

  Scott Mandia

  Mistake, Roots, Errors

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• I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying to say. Rather than offering the balm of consolation, the Buddha encouraged us to peer deep and unflinchingly into the heart of the bewildering and painful experience that life can so often be.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Karma, Believe, Heart

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• It’s amazing how lonely you can feel and like nobody understands…The moment you are vulnerable, someone always reaches out….They go through the same things. I want them to feel comfortable knowing that I have flaws as wells. I want them to know those flaws. I’m afraid of the pedestal…I want to be a peer to my fans

  Rihanna

  Lonely, Knowing, Fans

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• You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies’ man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.

  Courtney Love

  Men, Names, Drunk

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

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• They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.

  Paul Watson

  Years, Paper, International

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• Girls have to fight against a lot of the same stuff we did growing up... peer pressure, exploitation, etc. But what worries me the most is this trend that caring about something isn't cool. That it's better to comment on something than to commit to it. That it's so much cooler to be unmotivated and indifferent.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Growing Up, Caring

  "SNL's Amy Poehler: Smart Girls Have More Fun". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.alternet.org. December 2, 2008.

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• The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

  George Soros

  Groups, Followers, Investing

  George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, p.312, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

  Quincy Jones

  Class, Play, Attention

  The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org.

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• Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

  John Marshall Harlan

  Powerful, Color, Law

  Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, (559), 1896.

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• Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of us to the top of our peer group. The BID period has also seen Kingston rise to 12th place according to Experian, and 13th place according to the Javelin Venuescore, in their respective retail super leagues of UK town and city centres. I am confident the platform that our BID provides will allow us to continue to maintain Kingston as the place that people love to shop and visit.

  David Barford

  Taken, Years, Cities

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• I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

  Leo McKern

  Performances, Best Performance

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• My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.

  Neil Diamond

  Respect, Enough, Accepting

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• Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Motivational, Dream

  FaceBook post by Hugh M. Hefner from Apr 28, 2014

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• Studying in countries like China isn't only about your prospects in the global marketplace. It's not just about whether you can compete with your peers in other countries to make America stronger. It's also about whether you can come together and work together with them to make our world stronger. It's about the friendships you make, the bonds of trust you establish and the image of America that you project to the rest of the world.

  Michel'le

  Country, Our World, America

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• I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Self, Feelings, Speak

  "Heather Matarazzo: ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ changed my life". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 22, 2011.

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