Peer Quotes

189 quotes by 183 authors

How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play… — Kevin Leman
No one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one.… — Richard G. Scott
Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for… — Sandy Berger
There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass… — Jerry Nachman
We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
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… — Chris Van Allsburg
Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often… — Benjamin Percy
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell… — Charlie Munger
We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet… — Richard Louv
To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling. — Scott Stossel
I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as… — Jeanne Marie Laskas
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger… — Nicholas Negroponte
Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn… — Madisen Beaty
The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they… — Lauren Greenfield
Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in… — Mary Blakely
Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power… — Charles D. Hayes
Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. — Chris Van Allsburg
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… — Hilary Duff
I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the… — Lisa Leslie
Throughout the history of the Internet, most of the innovation has come as a by-product of efforts to facilitate communication within social groups of various… — John Quiggin

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