Peers Quotes

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.

Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

Don't wait till you get bigger to put in place key items, such as staff surveys, peer interviewing for hiring and clear standards of behavior [developed by staff].

Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

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.

At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not.

The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.

If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

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.

Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.

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

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.

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.

And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring. But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, ...beer is good enough for me.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.

I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.

I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!

It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

It's very important not to do what your peers think you should do, not do what your parents think,your teachers or even your culture. Do what's inside of you.

You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.

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

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer.

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

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

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.

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

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

90% trust peers on social networks (even strangers); only 15-18% trust brands.

And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.

Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming.

I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my technique in killing, gives me satisfaction.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

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