64 Quotes About Peers


  • Author Robert Galbraith
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    Other people his age had houses and washing machines, cars and television sets, furniture and gardens and mountain bikes and lawnmowers: he had four boxes of crap, and a set of matchless memories.

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  • Author Chris Van Allsburg
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    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.

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  • Author Hannes Alfven
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    I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. [Referring to the trouble he had with the peer reviewers of Anglo-American astrophysical journals because his ideas often conflicted with the generally accepted or “standard"” theories.]

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  • Author Alan Cohen
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    You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

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  • Author Jorge Cruz
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    These are people who want to come on their own time to be educated. I feel really proud of my peers here. Together, we will make a change.

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  • Author Adam Duritz
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    When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

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  • Author Al Gore
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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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