Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure."
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Peers
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Robert K. Merton
Sociologist
"Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of the public domain of scholarship can he truly lay claim to it as his own. For his claim resides only in the recognition accorded by peers in the social system of science through reference to his work."
Alan Cohen
Author
"You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own."
Nancy Sinatra
Singer
"I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room."
Esther Perel
Psychotherapist, Author
"A peer relationship is one where the partners experience an affectionate, companionate coupledom. They are friends. They are the product of the egalitarian model; they are good life partners, but are often less sexual."
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"Success leaves clues, Proximity is power. Love your family, CHOOSE your peers."
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"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."
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"If there’s one reason we have done better than of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience."
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"And I take full responsibility for my actions and whatever consequences my peers see fit."
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"You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. Today we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please."
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"For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated."
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"The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well."
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"I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever."
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"I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing."
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"The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are."
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"The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself."
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"Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer."
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"There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers."
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"There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel."
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"90% trust peers on social networks (even strangers); only 15-18% trust brands."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers."
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"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."
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"All things being equal, the primary competitive advantage of your business will be your ability to grow Leaders Without Titles faster than your industry peers."
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