Quotes About Peer Groups

#1. When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well ...

Mary Blakely

#2. I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'

G. Willow Wilson

#3. Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

David Riesman

#4. We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#5. Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community of people all working at the same art, the kind of group musicians and painters and dancers have always had.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

Tony Robbins

#7. Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.

Nandita Das

#8. A German firm called Friendsurance relies on people forming their own groups, which apply peer pressure to keep claims and costs lower. The result is refunded premiums for customers and profit for the company.

John Gerzema

#9. For the girls, cigarettes were torches of liberation

Shefalee Vasudev

#10. 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

#11. He's going to be okay," said Quentin. "He has to. He's Tybalt. You'd be all weird and irritating if he wasn't around."
"Weird and irritating?" I raised an eyebrow. "What gives you that idea?"
Quentin shrugged. "That's already how you get when he isn't around.

Seanan McGuire

#12. Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions.

Alexandra Robbins

#13. Sex is the joining of two bodies; love is the joining of two souls.

Gary Chapman

#14. Dying this way was a better way to die because living this way was a better way to live. The

Karl Marlantes

#15. Groups satisfy our brain's natural inclination to make sense of hordes of people we encounter and observe. This quality is so inherent that children intuitively understand the need to form groups without adults having to teach them.

Alexandra Robbins

#16. Goodbye, I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.

Libba Bray

#17. I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.

David Lynch

#18. If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

Abraham Lincoln

#19. Tom and I will always be in our honeymoon phase.

Katie Holmes

#20. The Lord, Jesus Christ, is our perfect example of patience.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#21. Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

Alexandra Robbins

#22. Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.

Alexandra Robbins