You stand above the rat race and the pecking order, not…

“I don’t run for trains.” Snub your destiny. I have taught myself to resist running to keep on schedule. This may seem a very…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't do Facebook and I don't do Twitter, and already I notice that, with some of my friends, there's a whole sphere of…

— James McAvoy

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“To act on this fear—a fear of being evaluated then dismissed by others—was to forgo a friendship that actually had some possibilities. In many…

— Jonathan Berent

I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you…

— Carl Andre

We want to be a works partner. Ferrari and Mercedes have their own works teams so where would you be in the pecking order…

— Christian Horner

“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“Something as superfluous as "play" is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask children why they like to play, they will…

— Michio Kaku

“Most people measure themselves against someone or something and then fight their inner doubts to believe they, too, have what it takes to do…

— Stephan Bauman

“If we are not apt to steer our life and engineer our individuality, we become preys of the pecking order or panting cardboard characters…

— Erik Pevernagie

“In fact, we owe the expression “pecking order” to studies of the social relations among chickens by the Norwegian zoologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, who found…

— Jennifer Ackerman

Not everyone gets a reservation in the hot restaurant. You must pay your dues. Like it or not there is a pecking order.

— Sonja Morgan

“The soldier was like that. He was an expert in getting other people to do what he wanted. The only creature that could make…

— Diana Wynne Jones

When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in…

— Corey Feldman