Peer Pressure famous quotes

Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their own. Such sincerely held beliefs, peer pressures, and the harsh demands that the work itself places on time and energy all tend to discourage such people from acquiring a similarly thorough knowledge of alternative policies and the need to discuss them.
-- Amory Lovins

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Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.
-- Andrew Lansley

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The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.
-- C. S. Lewis

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Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power as an extrinsic force is a lot like radiation: a little goes a long way.
-- Charles D. Hayes

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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.
-- Chris Van Allsburg

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If you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever, and the trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.
-- Daniel Handler

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There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.
-- Dennis Wolfberg

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Blame it on Peer Pressure.
-- John Marsden

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If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.
-- Kevin Gates

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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

#People #Groups #Peer Pressure

The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready
-- Liam Williams

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Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
-- Moritz Gudemann

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We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.
-- Neal A. Maxwell

#Peer Pressure #World

God has not called us to save America; He has called us to save Americans from the coming judgment of God by introducing them to faith in Jesus Christ.
-- Robert Jeffress

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I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.
-- Sara Paxton

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Never assume the obvious is true.
-- William Safire

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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
-- William Wordsworth

#Reflection #Peer Pressure #Habit

Just don't let anything get in the way of what you want to achieve. A lot of people get knocked back by friends, or family, or peer pressure. If you have a talent and want to do something with it, it's down to you. If it's what you really want then go after it and be very selfish... You have to remain committed, you have to stay focused and you have to be selfish.
-- George Sampson

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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

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Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions.
-- Robert S. Kaplan

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