Don DeLillo Quotes

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world.

I had bad days, and that means somebody else had a great day.

People are going to talk about you. But maybe you're having more fun than them anyway.

That's stupid." "That's people.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone

I think comparisons are odious.

We judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

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

You judge people as you meet them.

You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

Defenders see things way different than blockers.

It's easier at times to pick at what someone else does.

To the extent that someone goes out to criticize another woman about hair, makeup, silliness like that - unless you're talking about a makeup artist or something, really stop and think about what you're doing and why you're doing it.

When it comes to personal appearance, people are quick to cast judgment on people who look better than them. It's part of the human inferiority complex.

I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that's when the tragic downfall comes, because there will always be someone more beautiful.

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.

Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.