I became a sales manager at Digital Equipment, promoted from within the sales team. My peers were less than excited that I had gotten the job, especially one of my male peers who said he just wasn’t going to work for a woman.
I’ve been bullied my whole life, whether it was about my peers or comments on Instagram or Twitter, whatever. And I never talked about my story, really. I feel like I’ve kind of accepted it because I realized that just comes with the territory.
I place ‘Star Wars’ on such a pedestal, like many of my peers do, given that we all grew up with these stories.
Twins have a special bond. They feel safer with each other than with their peers.
Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.
I try to stay away from yes-men in my crew of immediate friends and peers. You got people that will tell you you’re the greatest ever, but I need people that can tell me where I need to improve. I can respect the honest opinion.
Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
Trump needs the media to act the way they do so he can dunk on them and look good by comparison. The media are enjoying the short-term rush of their war with Trump, wearing his abuse as a badge of honor among their peers.
You have to think of them as your peers. You can’t really – when you’re on the course and looking up to anybody, you’re saying, ‘Wow, that’s so and so,’ that’s when you get into trouble. For instance, if you’re paired with them, then what do you do?
We’re all vulnerable to social approval. The need to belong, to be approved or appreciated by our peers is among the highest human motivations. But now our social approval is in the hands of tech companies.
I haven’t looked to my peers for advice because we’re all going through the same thing. How do you ask your friends for advice when they’re going through the exact same thing?
Established in 2001, the Medal of Valor is our nation’s highest public safety award. Officers across the nation are nominated by their peers, but only a handful are selected to receive this honor. Traditionally, this process occurs only once a year.
I’ve been able to meet a lot of vets at different functions and events, and it just hit me that I should step it up a notch, and I have a lot of peers who feel the same way.
I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.
Rewards are directly proportional to the suspect and his peers’ status in society: $100,000 was offered in the Moxley case. It meant nothing to millionaires.
I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.
You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, ‘Oh, my God, I’ve got to be 80 pounds or I’ll fail.’
I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my peers were at least 10 years younger than I was. I felt like an old has-been at the time.
Poverty dictated my childhood. But there were benefits as well: I became independent, more mature than my peers, and I realized that money is not the most important thing in life.
Let’s learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.
Through the Internet, I’ve developed a strong social network – something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds.
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.
Having L.G.B.T. people sitting in the room while decisions are being made, and sitting there as peers, will shift the conversation.
Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers.
The people I respect the most are my peers, my fellow comedians. I want their respect. It’s my whole life.
