Quotes About Comparison

Given the disparity in the size of the states, it's entirely possible that the majority of states are doing worse while the majority of Americans are doing better. The key lesson is to pay attention to the unit of analysis.

these cases, the goal is to find two groups of subjects who are broadly similar except for the application of whatever "treatment" we care about.

So let's summarize: (1) these schools are being recognized as "excellent" for having students with high test scores; (2) to get into such a school, one must have high test scores. This is the logical equivalent of giving an award to the basketball team for doing such an excellent job of producing tall students.

I tried to think of a worse experience I had had in my life, and all I could come up with was a James Franco art exhibit.

She had Nick Lachey's body, a deep voice, very small boobies, and a crew cut. It would have come as no surprise if she had walked into the backyard to compete in a rock-hurling competition after dinner.

This is what happens when people like you get all carried away with follow-through: if you gardened like me and just bought a bunch of plants, brought them home and let them die you wouldn't be in this kind of trouble." "You don't have any tomatoes," she pointed out. Which is true enough, I suppose, but then—neither does she.

Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.

We have a saying that a snake is never as long as the stick to which we liken its length.

he was as good as any young man, or better because young men were no longer what they used to be.

With unparalleled rapidity, the Igbos advanced fastest in the shortest period of time of all Nigeria's ethnic groups. Like the Jews, to whom they have frequently been likened, they progressed despite being a minority in the country, filling the ranks of the nation's educated, prosperous upper classes.

The governing ideal was not merely to keep up with the Joneses, but to be the Joneses—to own the same model of car or dishwasher or lawn mower.

If you're troubled by the fact that 80/10 doesn't add up to 100, you've discovered the second confusing thing about the Rule. The 80 and the 20 are percentages of different things, and thus don't need to equal 100.

You never see your own face until you look into something reflecting it, but it sure is easy to see the flaws in everyone else.

Real life, our own life, is viewed next to the lives of celebrities as inadequate and inauthentic.

If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes.

Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at.

I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.

I see red only twice - when I took in the mirror and when I read that I'm a second Greer Garson.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

The '50 Shades' series is a Cinderella story, where the characters seemingly have no flaws. The 'Crossfire' series is very different in that these two characters are almost mirror images of each other.

Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.

One thing I did was to create a Love Yourself List. I wrote down everything I like about myself, and put it on my bathroom mirror. Then I read it until I believed it. Any time I compared myself to others, and felt negative about myself, I'd go back to that list.

I know what it's like to look in the mirror and absolutely hate what's looking back at you, and to pick up a fashion magazine and think, why can't I look like that?