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Blame it on Peer Pressure. -- John Marsden
Peer pressure is just that: pressure. -- Jerry Spinelli
Peer beyond the wall of doubt to embrace the possibilities. -- Truth Devour
I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt. -- Leo McKern
Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married. -- Adam Levine
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses. -- Andrew Lansley
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses. -- Andrew Lansley
Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves. -- James Black
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There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them. -- Po Bronson
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. -- Jerry Spinelli
Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends. -- Laurence Steinberg
Being a teenager is the worst thirty years of your life. Peer pressure, acne, final exams, seven little tiny hairs on your upper lip. Luckily, the girls never noticed your infantile moustache, 'cos they were hyptonised by the fire engine sized zit on your forehead. -- Christopher Titus
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt. -- George Bernard Shaw
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. -- Gordon Neufeld
Hermits have no peer pressure. -- Steven Wright
My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure. -- Kanye West
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. -- William Golding
I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure. -- Sara Paxton
I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them. -- Julia Roberts
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes. -- Henry Cloud
At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure. -- Wyclef Jean
The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee. -- Douglas Rushkoff
In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty. -- Roger B. Taney
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. -- Li Ka-shing
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. -- Steven Pinker
I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us. -- Kim Cattrall
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. -- Chris Van Allsburg
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. -- James Levine
I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them. -- Steve Vai
My son, before he went to school, he'd eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to school, he got some peer pressure, and other kids would say, 'Oh, you're gonna eat that. That's horrible. That's disgusting.' -- Tom Colicchio
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. -- Ernest Istook
For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life. -- Meghan Daum
We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
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. -- Hilary Duff
In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it. -- Steven Johnson
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 to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents. -- Madisen Beaty
Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence. -- Al Gore
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. -- Sylvia Earle
Pride, the first peer and president of Hell. -- Daniel Defoe
The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. -- John Marshall Harlan
There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure. -- Dennis Wolfberg
I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner -- Tony Benn
I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer. -- Lisa Guerrero
What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group. -- Douglas Adams
Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer. -- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups. -- Tony Robbins
The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer. -- Jeff Jarvis
As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer. -- Garry Wills
If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure. -- Kevin Gates
Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive. -- Eugene Mirman
They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years. -- Paul Watson
The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure. -- Unarine Ramaru
We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage. -- Charles Krauthammer
The reliance on social media as the avenue to get peer insight continues to increase. -- Bob Johnson
People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. -- Nicholas Negroponte
The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself. -- Frank Herbert
That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight. -- Michael Eric Dyson
You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him. "More than anyone else. -- Nicholas Sparks
Significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming. -- Antonino Zichichi
Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer. -- Jay Baer
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning. -- Sugata Mitra
When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians. -- Noel Pearson
The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature. -- Rajendra K. Pachauri
Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson. -- Douglas Alexander
When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name. -- Jonathan Swift
The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless. -- Win Butler
Can I request another peer guide, One who isn't so happy to be at school at 7:30 a.m.? -- Simone Elkeles
The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways. -- Mike Lofgren
I done became bigger swervin writin in my peer's lane. Same dudes that used to holla my engineer's name. -- Drake
Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough. -- Kool Moe Dee
The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group. Choose your peers wisely. -- Tony Robbins
The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope. -- Leonora Carrington
A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure. -- Tony Orlando
Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry. -- David Riesman
Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves. -- Walt Mueller
You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own. -- Alan Cohen
I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it. -- S. E. Hinton
Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure. -- Paul Collier
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel. -- Walt Mueller
My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me." -Lillian Bowman -- Lisa Kleypas
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer. -- Daniel Defoe
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
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. -- Pierre Trudeau
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
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. -- James Delingpole
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist. -- Emile Zola
A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
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. -- Guy Kawasaki
All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference. -- Eric Hobsbawm
My peer network is international. It's people all over the place who I know, and respect their work. It's not really delineated by traditional nationalist ideas. -- Tim Hecker
With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be still sitting in caves. -- Zygmunt Bauman
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can! -- Seneca the Younger
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 with them. -- Charlie Munger
The comfort of our peer-connections is reflected in our most honest and direct hand-holding. When we trip, they are the first ones to pull us back up. -- Sara Shandler
Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind faÃ§ades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour. -- John Pilger
Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients. -- Ralph Hall
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. -- H. P. Lovecraft
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]. -- Quint Studer
Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure. -- Kanye West
The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French. -- Cecilia Bartoli
No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own. -- Andre Breton
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. -- Steve Albini
I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age - I always wanted to hang out with my mom and her girlfriends. -- Jessica Alba
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross? -- Alexander Pope
His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines. -- Joseph Conrad
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. -- George Soros
When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . . -- Mary Blakely
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 presence of His living light. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
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. -- Nandita Das
The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not. -- Ellen DeGeneres
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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. -- Michael Pollan
In these unfiltered, un-moderated social media posts people are speculating about others' motivations. And you could no more put that in a peer review for a journal than you could fly. -- Susan Fiske
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? -- Neil Innes

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