Quotes About Comparison

I know I earn less at my primary school than you do, but I don't have to work as hard at my primary school.

Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want

social comparison lowers our happiness.

Anyone who can't tell the difference between an ordinary Bernie Sanders supporter and a Stalinist revolutionary, or between Donald Trump's average voter and a Nazi, is either willfully ignorant or needs to get out of the house more.

Many success addicts confess that they feel like losers when they see someone else who is yet more successful.

researchers have long found that social comparison lowers our happiness.[29] But you hardly need a study to tell you that—just spend a few hours browsing Instagram and see how bad you feel about yourself. This is because you are comparing your success with your perception of others' success, as depicted in information of dubious accuracy. Nothing good comes of this.

Your satisfaction is what you have, divided by what you want.

Of all the criticisms levelled at Stephen Harper by his critics, the most puzzling, at least to anyone who has covered Washington, is that he behaves more like a president than a prime minister.

Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.

Obviously, I don't really think my version of a Cha-Cha would actually qualify for a Cha-Cha.

We are better placed than Pakistan as we have been playing against top teams around the world. Pakistan on the other hand failed to qualify for the Olympics for the first time in their history.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did.

We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.

In the end, I know my qualities and I know I'm not Messi. I'm Bojan.

Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pele was better.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

When you compare individuals, rather than countries, you find that education improves both income and the quality of life.

I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine's like a quarter horse, but just a much better gait - it moves very fast.

You compare a goalie position to a quarterback to a pitcher. You're going to make that decision of what's gonna happen to you. They're a high-pressure position. They're fun just for that.

The most important thing I learned is I have to get my body in shape, because those men look good. Not just the other quarterbacks - everyone. Their bodies look good.

You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they - they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.