Quotes About Status

Significance in life doesn't come from status, because you can always find somebody who's got more than you. It doesn't come from sex. It doesn't come from salary. It comes from serving.

The rank is but the guinea's stamp,The man's the gowd for a' that.

For idleness is an appendix to nobility.

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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

When we think of a software architect, we think of someone who has power, and who commands respect.

Second, never imagine that because the master loves you, you can do anything you want. Entire books could be written about favorites who fell out of favor by taking their status for granted, for daring to outshine.

Social psychologist Leon Festinger described a "social comparison process"10 as a human universal. People everywhere compare themselves with others of similar social rank, paying much less attention to those who are either far above them or far below them on the social ladder.

power often grew from others deciding that you already had power, and an appearance of wealth could give that.

Testosterone makes us more willing to do what it takes to attain and maintain status. And the key point is what it takes. Engineer social circumstances right, and boosting testosterone levels during a challenge would make people compete like crazy to do the most acts of random kindness. In our world riddled with male violence, the problem isn't that testosterone can increase levels of aggression. The problem is the frequency with which we reward aggression.

A high status male will make strong, powerful eye contact when he's talking to a girl, but he will make less eye contact when she's talking to him. This will make her work harder to gain his attention and win his approval. That's called the 90/60 Rule.

Testosterone makes us more willing to do what it takes to attain and maintain status...In our world riddled with male violence, the problem isn't that testosterone can increase levels of aggression. The problem is the frequency with which we reward aggression.

It is not just that we want more but that we want more than others, who at the same time want more than us; this fuels an endless race.

Indeed, we are slowly reverting to the conditions of earlier times, when societies were divided into a small class of rentiers and a large class of servants, without, however, the hierarchical structure which made such inequality of status more palatable.

we're all employees ultimately. We just work at different levels

The problem was that the rich man was not rich yet, and the poor man was not yet poor.

The middle class finds itself in a constant state of financial struggle.

your car can be far more expensive than your boss's car, even though your car costs less.

He certainly must have money, for he has just showered Jane with jewelry. Her engagement ring is a diamond cluster so big that it looks like a plaster on Jane's fat paw.

Olive never had to wear flannel petticoats. Olive wore ruffled silk and sheer lawn and filmy laced flounces. But Olive's father had 'married money' and Olive never had Bronchitis. So there you were.

Why do you like Hugh better? Because he is a Viscount?' 'Well, that's one reason,' I admitted, without any false shame. Respect for degree was in my blood and I didn't think of it as snobbery.

I have theories. Notice the patterns of deference as they approach their seats. Viceroy Merrill assists Sally to climb the stairs. Titles are omitted by some and always used by others, and given redundantly in full over the loudspeakers. The 'gentlemen of the press' would seem to have no status at all, yet they stop whom they please, and although the others will prevent them from going where they will, they are not punished for trying.

The food could climb the social ladder but sometimes the cook was left behind.