#peer

College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#establishment #gaede #mathematical-physics #mathematicians #mathematics

Although initially only few in numbers, it seems my gray hairs have launched an effective peer-pressure campaign intended to convert the others. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#funny #gray-hair #humor #peer-pressure #experience

I will no longer let the fear of vicious comments or replies stop me from speaking what I believe to be right. I will also never give a message that everybody will agree with. I know that even my most faithful followers will never agree 100% with what I say. I also know that they know that and are fine with it. I am done letting the bullies win. They won’t anymore. Not here. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#blogs #bullies #bully #followers #negative

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision. ↗

— V.S. Naipaul

#free-will #freedom #lack-of-vision #limitations #peer-pressure

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief. ↗

— Stendhal

#genuineness #life #living #peer-pressure #life

Some people will just go with the flow of things and sway in life, while others will fight against the currents and go upstream to reach their destiny. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#following #overcoming-obstacles #peer-pressure #swaying-in-life #life

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful. ↗

— Umera Ahmed

#islam #pain #peer-e-kamil #spiritual #sword

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#individuality #peer-pressure #wisdom #wisdom

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away. ↗

— Rachel Simmons

#bullying #peers #culture

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#gaede #god #mathematics #peer-review #physics