Peer Perception Quotes

People don't go to bars they think are uncool.

I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.

I guess my friends probably think I'm one of the lamest when it comes to doing stuff.

My school spirit is at an all time low, I'm losing my status at the school.

While acting in Armed Response I was always focused, just so they could see me as a peer and maybe not some idiot who's coming in from the pro-wrestling world. I'm sure they had their preconceived notions about me so I just hope that once we were finished with a scene, or finished with the movie overall, that I managed to change their perspective based on what they were expecting.

Are you kidding?" She looked at me as if I'd just dropped from the moon. Her cheeks were bright red. "What's the problem now?" I demanded. "Me, go with you to the...the 'Thrill Ride of Love'? How embarrassing is that? What if somebody saw me?" "Who's going to see you?" But my face was burning now, too. Leave it to a girl to make everything complicated. "Fine," I told her. "I'll do it myself." But when I started down the side of the pool, she followed me, muttering about how boys always messed things up.

When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like I was some kind of math genius. And there were just so many moments when I realized, like, okay, why can't I just be like some normal person and go have a 75% average like everyone else.

Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.

Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker.

Most schools, the football players are kind of the kings in school.

Titles or organizational structures, that’s not the lens through which we see our peers.

When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.

There are a lot of guys who are respected but not liked.

It's humbling how my peers view me as not only one of the best Olympic power and weightlifters, but as an athlete.

If people don't like you, it doesn't matter how much uniqueness, nerve or talent you have!

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.

He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?

I'm not going to get drunk at a bar. There are younger girls who look up to me. So I do my best not to stray too far.

I was somewhat of a mute at school, so people were quite scared!

Girls in my school were always prettier.

As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.

Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

I suppose when I was growing up, it was all about fitting into a box or fitting into a category. You know, looking like I listened to hip-hop, or looking like I listened to grime. You'd see someone and go, 'Oh, look at that person. He's wearing that or that; he listens to punk rock.'

The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.

An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.