As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect.
Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.
Boon: [At the bar in the Negro Dexter Lake Club, Boon turns to face the band] Otis, my man! [Otis pauses singing for a second and peers incredulously at Boon]
I started working with brain sensing tech in labs over a decade ago and was immediately fascinated by the potential to help people peer into the workings and behaviors of their own minds.
Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network - something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds.
I think that my peers deserve more than products to buy wrapped up in advertising. We need ideas to share and causes to believe in - opportunities to lead and teach.
One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.
I don't need their understanding, but my daughter will--and I hope the minds of her peers are wide open with vibrant hues of passion. i hope they paint the world with color.
It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
Crying relieves pressure on soul.
Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.
Lindsay Lohan was the 'It' girl from, like, 14. That's a lot of pressure.
Social pressure makes a person depressed.
People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.
The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year.
The bigger you get, the more pressure you have to deal with.
The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.
Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.
There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.
I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.
In a sportsperson's life, pressure is always there; you have to learn to deal with it.
