Quotes About Comparison

No disrespect to Gronk - Travis Kelce is the best tight end in football.

Life is not a playground of competition. If it was, we would be busy reaching the finish line.

A fine but tarnished diamond is always preferable to a piece of glass, no matter how polished.

I hate babies. They're so human—they remind one of monkeys.

Most simply, a metaphor is seeing one thing as something else, pretending "this" is "that" because we do not know how to think or talk about "this," so we use "that" as a way of saying something about it. Thinking metaphorically means spotting a thread of similarity between two dissimilar objects, events, or whatever, one of which is better known than the other, and using the better-known one as a way of speaking about the lesser known.

Normal is a piece of string. What's normal for one person is off the chart for another.

My stepmother was no beauty. She was round and squat with a face not unlike a potato that had been scrubbed.

Passing judgment means feeling the need to impose your standards on others, as if their job were to live up to your expectations. You don't have to do this verbally. You can also judge another person in your hand, comparing his or her behavior to what you would do, usually in a way that shows you to be superior.

You're not big enough, so you don't belong. Others are more deserving than you are.

Passing judgment means feeling the need to impose your standards on others, as if their job were to live up to your expectations.

The reality, however, is that "better" is not better. Better is a mirage. It keeps you chained to the same way of working as your competition. Better is temporary. Better is a flimsy edge that can be toppled in a millisecond by someone with a bigger following, a lower price, a more convenient location, a fancier degree, a shinier award, a newer technology, a more skillful skill. Better is not always better. Sometimes, it's worse.

A pinch of jealousy thickens the broth. —Venus's Love Notes

A pinch of jealousy thickens the broth.

El termómetro del éxito es simplemente la envidia de los descontentos.

No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

Amigo mío, dado el abismo que separa todas tus experiencias de todas las mías, lo más cerca que te puedo situar de ese sabor tan único es decirte que los libros, así, por término medio, saben a lo mismo que huele el café

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes." Hunter S. Thompson

He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a Lord may be an owl, A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice, And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organised and more naturally cohesive.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

It is hard enough to know whether one is happy or unhappy now, and still harder to compare the relative happiness or unhappiness of different times of one's life; the utmost that can be said is that we are fairly happy so long as we are not distinctly aware of being miserable.