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Comparison is the enemy to creativity.
The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else.
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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Mere adequacy is never adequate.
Opinions are projections.
Comparison is the enemy of happiness,
Comparing yourself to others dwarfs your imagination
No historical analogies are exactly precise.
In perspective it was tremendous
I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
Since time immemorial wise people have been saying that all comparisons are odious. When we compare, we set up a winner-loser dynamic. If my crisis is greater than yours, then yours is belittled and insignificant. I say that's nonsense. Each crisis has its own power, its own unique reality.
The concept of Just Noticeable Difference is summarized by the equation below (a.k.a. the Weber Fraction):
That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.
Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.
A comparative adjective is appropriate when the two items are being directly contrasted, one against the other; a superlative can work when an item is superior not just to the alternative in view at the time but to a larger implicit comparison group.
I feel there's no need to overstate.
Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.
Bigness is better.
You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.
Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared ... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")
Comparisons are always welcomed when drawn in favor.
Comparison is the death of true self-contentment.
Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
Less, but better.-- Dieter Rams
God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.
Comparisons should be restricted to statistical figures and studies. When you compare yourself with others, two sorts of situations arise- You find yourself better than others You find yourself below others Both the situations could go against you.
I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball.
Logic is relative.
Comparison is often why our important roles shrink to seem so insignificant. Comparison robs us of the joy of obedience.
One is but a shade of the other.
Capability stands you out; capacity scales you up.
In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure ... and forget that there is a difference.
Does the beauty of life remain alive without making a comparison?
The comparison isn't with others; it's with your former and future selves.
I think it's possible to a certain extent to make those comparisons. The problem is the detail with which the comparison can be made. Of course, the first place to make such a comparison would be to ask for a testimony from different people and have people report on what they experience.
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A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.
No one wins when you compare. You don't win. Your family doesn't win. Your friends don't win. You must be in control and not let comparison take hold of your mind. Rather, focus on yourself, your family, and where God has you in your life.
What we consider to be different depends on what we consider to be the norm.
Comparison is the thief of happiness.
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.
Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.
Whomever compares him or herself to another, always loses.
In the realm of the phenomenal, "less is more" only when less is the sum total of more.
Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.
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That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.
It's quality versus quantity, but quantity has a quality all its own,
All comparisons injure.
Comparing is empoverishing our own experience. There is meaning to our suffering, if we rise above it.
Indeed, as I made my critique, the problem seemed to me not that there are differences but rather how we value these differences.
Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.
When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made ... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
Each to their own reality
Greatness is not always largeness.
So it does not matter (comparatively speaking) how often humanity fails to imitate its ideal; for then all its old failures are fruitful. But it does frightfully matter how often humanity changes its ideal; for then all its old failures are fruitless.
Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.
While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture.
Everything pales in comparison to deer.
Books and people are hard to compare.
For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.
Comparing is a Gratitude Blocker.
Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.
The extraordinary's the norm.
Never in history has distance meant less.
There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.
There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.
The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.
You get comparisons with anything in life. I think that if you [are] taking the time out to compare me to somebody, then I must be doing something right.
The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.
To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.
But that was the thing about metaphors, those tricky comparisons of dissimilar things. They weren't always tricky. Or dissimilar.
Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".
The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the other.
The far and the near must be relative, and depend on many varying circumstances.
Analogies are like lies.
Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes
I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.
Not everything that's small is insignificant.
The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.
The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
Comparisons are made to make the other person fall short.
Insignificant - that's what all those years I'd given them would be,
Comparison leads to violence.
-at least in the collective mind of the Society.
I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
All intimacies are based on differences.
Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky.
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing [seeing how] things online can also be translated offline.
Our feelings of contentment are strongly influenced by our tendency to compare.
Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.
Change is always subjective.