#comparison

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. ↗

— Dorothy Corkville Briggs

#breeding #comes #compare #comparisons #fan

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. ↗

— Robert Cecil

#consider #does #harness #horses #looks

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing. ↗

— John Cusack

#comparison #degrees #else #how #judge

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#comparison #front #inside #lies #you

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony. ↗

— Elizabeth Fishel

#death #harmony #knell #sibling

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#between #comparison #dangerous #draw #false

Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to. ↗

— Paul Pierce

#compared #comparisons #create #even #game

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. ↗

— Gerald Jampolsky

#asks #comparison #expansion #extension #fear

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons. ↗

— Tim Roth

#compare #comparisons #how #i #kubrick