Quotes About Comparison

Questions like, "How close is the angle of this object to vertical?" "Are any of the subject's dimensions the same?" "Where is this in relation to that?

That is, there is no meaning to the velocity of an object by itself: the only velocity that exists is the velocity of an object with respect to another object.

I said, why can't the world all convert to using Macs? Everything takes longer and is harder on a PC.

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

Recognize your wealth but realize your measurement

Miss Rice loaned me the negatives, and I ordered these prints from the drugstore in town. No comparison to Josh's work. He was gifted in a dying art form. I don't think he would've cared for the age of digital cameras.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

Casting wistful glances at the Woodlawns' house Now

Think of times other people outdid you and you just assumed that they were smarter or more talented. Now consider the idea that they just used better strategies, taught themselves more, practiced harder, and worked their way through obstacles. You can do that too, if you want to.

when you teach children to measure themselves from their success, they then measure themselves from their failure as well. Finally,

In summary, people who believe in fixed traits feel an urgency to succeed, and when they do, they may feel more than pride. They may feel a sense of superiority, since success means that their fixed traits are better than other people's. However, lurking behind that self-esteem of the fixed mindset is a simple question: If you're somebody when you're successful, what are you when you're unsuccessful?

they operated on the fixed-mindset premise that great geniuses do not need great teams. They just need little helpers to carry out their brilliant ideas. Don't forget that these great geniuses don't want great teams, either. Fixed-mindset people want to be the only big fish so that when they compare themselves to those around them, they can feel a cut above the rest.

Many of these comparison companies operated on what Collins calls a "genius with a thousand helpers" model. Instead of building an extraordinary management team like the good-to-great companies, they operated on the fixed-mindset premise that great geniuses do not need great teams. They just need little helpers to carry out their brilliant ideas.

Uh-oh, it's the somebody-nobody syndrome. If I win, I'll be somebody; if I lose I'll be nobody.

Before we judge, let's remember that effort isn't quite everything and that all effort is not created equal.

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

In nothing that we can produce here is there at present the slightest chance of any return on our labor. Yet we keep on working -- really harder than ever. I wonder sometimes whether we are any wiser than the ants.

Some people, it's like they care more about their status updates than their actual lives.

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.

She looks out the window at Reno, which looks like Vegas and yet also looks nothing like Vegas. It's lesser, smaller, worse.

In terms of sheer annoyance, nobody I have ever known has compared to Sare Worthington, saver of the environment, native of Portland, Maine, forever wishing that she were from Portland, Oregon. Bitch should have just moved there.

I love you because onions are more complicated than cherries. I'm doomed. I

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing. She's

You're an onion and Karen's a Maraschino cherry and I love you because onions are more complicated than cherries. I'm doomed.