Top 90 Peer Quotes

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child’s peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

Serving your country in the U.S. brings not just peer respect but also the chance to learn new skills and receive a college education. The U.K.’s armed forces offer a similar deal.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss.

CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze ‘packets’ of data as they flew by.

Throughout school, I’ve faced ridicule and been complexed about my appearance. I almost turned into a nervous wreck. Peer pressure is bad. Children can be really cruel. Specially if you’re not like everyone else.

I was a highly sensitive kid, sort of an old soul, and I felt like a lot of people in my peer group didn’t fully understand me, or I couldn’t fully be myself. I just wasn’t engaged in a way that was fulfilling me.

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other’s art – I just found it so useless.

Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you’ll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

There’s peer pressure of not being respected of having a certain amount of money, but if you know who you are, then you see that and look past it.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

I didn’t have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude… I didn’t have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.

You don’t need to bow down to peer pressure or be comparing yourself.

For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It’s corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists.

I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them.

When I finally got the chance to do ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson,’ my peers embraced me with the same attitude. They didn’t make me feel small or insignificant. They treated me as a peer. It was a wonderful experience.

I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I’m able to peer into history as a mirror.

There’s a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large.

Women tend to have recognition and peer group support – recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They’re more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.

Barring some national security concern, I see no valid reason to keep peer-reviewed research from the public. To be clear, by ‘peer review,’ I mean scientific review and not a political filter.

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

You don’t need to wear certain shoes or carry a kind of bag because of peer pressure.

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

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

The very phrase ‘Make America great again’ implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.

I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people’s desire to get married.

It has never been the case that a peerage can be extinguished, even for the lifetime of a peer, by a motion of the Lords. This does not mean that there are not effective ways of penalising errant peers.

The motivations for using drugs, often it’s pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don’t like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

The children of less effective, less competent parents will be more likely to adopt the customs and values of the peer group.

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

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.

When you’re 20 and going to the draft, everybody is telling you what you should wear. I kind of succumbed to peer pressure on that one.

Democrats want to peer into every second of President Trump’s life, hoping to find a smoking gun.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

A German firm called Friendsurance relies on people forming their own groups, which apply peer pressure to keep claims and costs lower. The result is refunded premiums for customers and profit for the company.

My first car was a little white Volkswagen City Golf. They’ve just been discontinued in South Africa, but they were the staple first car for most of my peer group. It’s the most entry-level four-door four-seater that Volkswagen ever made. I named him Doug. I don’t know why.

Peer review is fine, as long as you’re making incremental improvements to a technology.

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that’s such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, ‘What is everybody else going to wear today?’ doesn’t mean that they don’t wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

I think in modern communication studies, we put a lot of emphasis on our relationships and our family relationships. Our relationships with our parents, and our siblings. I felt that there was this gap in content about communication with people who are super close to you in your peer group.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

Peer attachments are not the problem themselves. It’s when they compete with adult attachments that the problems emerge. It’s just like when siblings get attached to each other. If they start revolving around each other, then the parents can’t do anything with them because it’s a competing attachment.

People just don’t realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

If it hadn’t been for record people like Ralph Peer, the Chess brothers, and Alan Lomax, then life would’ve been unbelievably dull, and I would’ve been sacking groceries somewhere and probably, at this point, running a little 7-Eleven down by the airport.