Quotes About Comparison

Consider the results of a study conducted at Northwestern University. Researchers gave online participants information about a pair of sofas we'll call the Dream and the Titan. The two, manufactured by different furniture companies, were comparable in all respects except for their cushions. The Dream's cushions were softer and more comfortable than the Titan's but less durable. In

They behave in accordance with what the contrast principle would suggest: Sell the suit first, because when it comes time to look at sweaters, even expensive ones, their prices will not seem as high in comparison.

All things being equal, you root for your own sex, your own culture, your own locality…and what you want to prove is that you are better than the other person. Whomever you root for represents you; and when he wins, you win.

Existe um princípio na percepção humana, o princípio do contraste, que afeta a forma como vemos a diferença entre duas coisas quando apresentadas uma após a outra. Em suma, se o segundo item for razoavelmente diferente do primeiro, é grande a probabilidade de vê-lo como mais diferente do que de fato é.

When it comes to fiber connections, the United States is behind Sweden, Estonia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, and most other developed countries, putting us twenty-eighth worldwide in terms of speed of Internet access and twenty-third in terms of cost.

Medicare's administrative costs are only 3 percent, far below the 30 percent average administrative costs of private insurers.

Republicans claim public sector workers now take home more generous pay and benefits packages than private sector workers. It's not true on the wage side if you control for level of education, but it wasn't even true on the benefits side until private sector benefits fell off a cliff.

Men are always jealous of women who are superior to themselves.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

Love may be blind, but this I'll state — it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

Everyone in a codependent society has to have someone to look down upon in order to feel good about themselves.

I realized that I was judging myself against standards that weren't real, against expectations that were a fantasy, a fairy tale.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us naught but grief an' pain For promised joy! Still thou art blest, compared wi' me! The present only toucheth thee:

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

All our geese are swans.

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

One religion is as true as another.

Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill

MacBook is at least 1022 more powerful than those early computers that I started using half a century ago

and all the strange rats we saw looked, to us, surprisingly weak and puny. So we were set apart from even our own kind.