Peers Quotes

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

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.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.

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.

We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?

Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

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.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

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 never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.

When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.

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.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers.

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.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!