Quotes About Comparison

I believe I'm below average. It's a deliberate, cultivated belief to compensate for our tendency to think we're above average.

La gran tentación de la gente es querer ser otra persona, quieren protagonizar la película de otro.

Me obligo a mí mismo a dejar de comparar lo que aprendo con el pasado. Si sólo te fijas en los patrones del pasado, no llegarás lejos.»

The most complicated letters in English, like E and W, have four strokes. Many Japanese characters have more than 15 strokes

the second derivative conveys just the idea we want—a comparison between the value at x and the average value near x. It is worth noting that if f is linear, then the average of f(x - h) and f(x + h) will be equal to f(x), which fits with the familiar fact that the second derivative of a linear function f is zero.

to judge darkness as bad or wrong is akin to judging whether up is better than down, or whether blue is better than red

Each thinks he or she is more righteous than the other. Each

Is there evidence that you are looking to your relationships to give you things you have already been given in Christ?

Be honest: have you ever tried to recreate someone in your own likeness?

Why is it so important to highlight these comparisons? Because the Christian life is built upon the foundation of facing who you really are and trusting who Christ truly is. Everything you do will be shaped by the degree to which you act on the blessings that are yours in Christ.

For too many of us, our sense of identity is more rooted in our performance than it is in God's grace.

Separated from National Socialism by time and luck, we find it easy to dismiss Nazi ideas without contemplating how they functioned. Our forgetfulness convinces us that we are different from Nazis by shrouding the ways that we are the same. —

Will we in retrospect see the elections of 2016 much as Russians see the elections of 1990, or Czechs the elections of 1946, or Germans the elections of 1932? This,

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

Il passato è un'indispensabile guida per chi vuol visitare il presente o immaginarsi il futuro. In tutti i miei viaggi mi porto sempre dietro i libri di qualcuno che ha percorso quella strada prima di me. Non solo mi fanno compagnia, ma me ne servo come termine di paragone, come misura di quello che vedo.

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.

You may be my closest friend, but that doesn't mean you know everything about me.' 'I know you better than you know yourself.' 'I hate you when you say things like that. I'll never be like you.' 'Too late. You already are.

All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

Ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que leí Cenicienta, pero recuerdo que una de las hermanastras estaba "verde de envidia" y la otra "roja de ira". ¡Y aquí están! Así es exactamente como el pintor las retrató. Las mejillas están teñidas de rojo de ira y de verde de envidia.

One of the good things about cats is that, unlike dogs, they don't come up to you in the street and try to have sex with your leg.

The next time you say 'Life isn't fair' remember that 40% of the world lives on less than $2/day and does not eat every day. How does your 'not fair' compare to theirs? - Tom Cunningham

Count on the best people outperforming the worst by about 10:1. • Count on the best performer being about 2.5 times better than the median performer. • Count on the half that are better-than-median performers outdoing the other half by more than 2:1.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.