Quotes About Comparison

Our culture promotes an endless need for fulfillment to always want what the next guy has, even though the effort might kill us.

A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.

There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

If men can be categorized for their looks on a scale of 1 to 10, they can also be graded for their sexual prowess, A to F." —MARGARET THATCHER I

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

Can you find another market like this? Where, with your one rose, you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

what were my impressions upon viewing for the first time the manor where you'd had me brought? My initial thought was "Toad Hall." This was, of course, an inadequate comparison but the best I could muster considering the limited number of books I'd read that centered on soaring Gothic structures. (As a boy, I went nine pages into The Hunchback of Notre Dame before realizing it wasn't a football story.)

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.

The monkey population is definitely on the increase, and I wouldn't be surprised if one day it exceeds the human population. Of course, the way things are going, a time may come when we won't be able to distinguish between monkeys and humans. Monkeys are becoming more human, while humans are becoming more like monkeys. Summer

Dry bread at home is better then curried prawns abroad.

There's no shame in being second to Stephen Fry. Unless it's in a straight nose competition.

A turtle doesn't have to decide every morning whether to keep on bothering, it just carries on. Maybe that's why man kills everything: envy.

La ciencia, (...), involucra la búsqueda de similaridades entre cosas que aparentemente son diferentes. El arte, por el contrario, debe buscar diferencias entre cosas que aparentemente son iguales. La ciencia busca lo general, mientras que el arte va por lo único.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

One stupid woman recognizes another one from a distance.

Jealousy and love are sisters.

Everyone thinks it goes smoothly in everyone else's house, and theirs is the only place that has problems. I'll let you in on a secret about teaching: there is no place in the world where it rolls along smoothly without problems. Only in articles and books can that happen.

Practice Guideline 5 Assign comparison practice exercises to build relevant prior knowledge, to correct flawed or incomplete mental models, or to reflect on decisions made in a training scenario.

Based on their extensive review of evidence, Hattie and others (2017) recommend: "not to mix praise with feedback about the content, as it dilutes the feedback message." When given, praise "needs to be specific, sincere, accurate, earned, preferably unexpected, not exaggerated, more private than public, and not include social comparison.

Feedback is most powerful when it is linked to a goal and it informs the learner how they are progressing toward that goal. Feedback that compares the learner's outcomes to the outcomes of others draws attention to the self and has been shown to reduce motivation for learning.

They say opposites attract, but like meets like, too.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.