Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is… — Roy Bean Copy Share Image
“Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute… — George Soros Copy Share Image
A lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive… — Walt Mueller Copy Share Image
I'm reaching a certain level [at school] that I had been aspiring to with all these incredibly advanced classical peers around me… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
My peer network is international. It's people all over the place who I know, and respect their work. It's not really delineated… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.' — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
“But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Every time a child organizes and completes a chore, spends some time alone without feeling lonely, loses herself in play for an… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I always saw my peers finding some cool passion, but every time I tried one of those things, it never clicked. I… — Liana Liberato Copy Share Image
I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I find that so many of my peers of my age don't listen to anything new. But I love the new. I… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Be respectful to your peers and yourself, of course. Don't be a jerk. But at the same time don't settle for anything… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image