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If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers. -- Horatio Nelson
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well. -- William Gilbert
Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand. -- Peter Norvig
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
When Wellington thrashed Bonaparte, As every child can tell, The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well -- W.S. Gilbert
The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days! -- Walter Raleigh
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. -- Dee Hock
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. -- Franz Kafka
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers. -- John Milton
Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups. -- Tony Robbins
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. -- Samuel Butler
I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me. -- Bonnie Raitt
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. -- William Golding
My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar. -- Conrad Hall
In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better. -- Brian P. Cleary
Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia. -- Dee Hock
I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans. -- Miranda Lambert
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. -- Ron White
Its kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people. -- Karen Carpenter
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 are doing is just eating away at everybody else. -- Lauren Greenfield
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
Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum. -- Denis Waitley
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential. -- Christine Gregoire
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. -- Winston Churchill
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their peers, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. -- Robert Kennedy
Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard. -- Tony Robbins
Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time leading yourself-your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers. If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. -- Dee Hock
My peers and colleagues inspire me. -- Robin Chase
It's cool to be recognised by your peers. -- Frank Ocean
I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers. -- Sigourney Weaver
Twins have a special bond. They feel safer with each other than with their peers. -- Jeanne Phillips
If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it. -- Hugh Hefner
I've always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team. -- Jimmie Johnson
A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving. -- Ray Kurzweil
I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest. -- Katy Perry
I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities. -- Mary Barra
You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty. -- Roy Bean
I am who I am. That's why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don't change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I'm myself 24/7. People appreciate that. -- Kevin Hart
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. -- Todd Tiahrt
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. -- David Mixner
As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect. -- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. -- Yo-Yo Ma
The three of us just try put our heads down and stay creative. The awards truly are just cake. It's one of those things that you never expect, but getting the head nod from either the fans or your peers, that's the ultimate compliment. -- Hillary Scott
There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation. -- Edmund Hillary
In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment. -- Al Sharpton
Every once in awhile you get encouragement, or you get something that isn't competitive or guilt-inducing from your peers, and it just turns a little light on. It makes it so the work that you do isn't isolating and horrible. There are people who make your life and your work better, and that's something I'm incredibly grateful for. -- Julie Klausner
I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in the media. But the people that I used to inspire me and keep me going were my peers in Toronto - I would see the same girls going to audition after audition, and their resilience to do it again, and I found that inspiring. -- Anna Silk
The generation that I'm in is extremely talented, and those that are still in school, my peers that are my age that will be out here really soon, you guys will see, will make a pretty easy transition on the PGA Tour. I don't think they will have a problem at all. The game is getting younger, and the game is getting better. -- Jordan Spieth
I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside. -- Larry Harvey
Harness the power of peers. -- Daniel H. Pink
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. -- Bob Ross
The bulk of my input comes from my peers. -- Bob Weir
Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers. -- Stephen D. Krashen
My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough. -- Neil Diamond
What really matters to me is what my peers think. -- Helen McCrory
90% trust peers on social networks (even strangers); only 15-18% trust brands. -- Danny Brown
I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing. -- Shania Twain
If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative. -- Henry Heimlich
On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers. -- Robert Wyatt
Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery. -- Jeff Atwood
Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I've never been motivated by money. My peers and colleagues inspire me. -- Robin Chase
Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers. -- Tony Robbins
Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook. -- Giles Foden
Titles or organizational structures, that's not the lens through which we see our peers, -- Jonathan Ive
It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves. -- Billy Graham
If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers. -- Sean Penn
I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses. -- Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers. -- Willie Stargell
I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself. -- Don Dokken
The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves. -- Robert Grudin
I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together. -- Sigourney Weaver
And I take full responsibility for my actions and whatever consequences my peers see fit. -- Kenneth Williams
What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers. -- Alison Gopnik
There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel. -- Eloisa James
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist. -- Jessica Savitch
I certainly like working harder than a lot of my peers. The trick is embracing it. -- Topher Grace
The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa. -- Gregory Benford
Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends. -- Ovid
If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball. -- Kenesaw Mountain Landis
I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers. -- Elisha Cuthbert
Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents. -- Arne Duncan
You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you. -- LaDainian Tomlinson
I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years. -- Paul Simon
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot. -- Cory Doctorow
My brothers were my peers, but they were not the preeminent male figures in my emotional life. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch! -- Portia de Rossi
That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers -- Andre Agassi
By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole. -- Gerald Jonas
I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers. -- Thomas Jane
If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular. -- J Tillman
Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership. -- John Waters
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep. -- Socrates
I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one. -- John Kennedy Toole
Forerun thy peers, thy time, and letThy feet, millenniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope. -- Leonora Carrington
Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers. -- William Shakespeare
The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers. -- Clarence H. Burns
The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group. Choose your peers wisely. -- Tony Robbins
To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard. -- Wes Fesler
And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers. -- Ryan Lilly
Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them. -- Trisha Goddard
It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers. -- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school. -- Bob Pletka
Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. I achieved that a long time ago with TV. I don't need any more. -- Bob Ross
Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed â??bossyâ?? by their peers, -- Anna Maria Chavez
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A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street. -- Mason Cooley
It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them? -- Zac Hanson
Getting candor right - with your reports, your peers, and your boss - is a skill that can make or break your career. -- Jack Welch
While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret it. -- Alexandra Adornetto
I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort. -- Christy Turlington
You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part. -- Marc Forster
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy. -- Dan Savage
All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word! -- Dionne Warwick
When I got my commission, other land surveyors told me to ask for advice from my peers when I was struggling with something. -- Mark Mason

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