Comparative Thinking Quotes

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

I never think any place is better than others.

I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.

Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant, and one needs to have a kind of comparative way of thinking in order to arrive at a judgment that is not completely provincial, that doesn't end up ratifying one's own national perspective and hence, one's own national agendas.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

Go out and face the world secure in the knowledge that everybody else thinks they are better looking than they are as well.

I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know.

My problems are so miniscule compared to what's going on in the world. In that sense, I feel liberated.

I kinda see everyone as competition.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

If you think one piece of creation is better than another, you have completely lost it.

I try to find some similarities between myself and the characters, even if it's the tiniest thing.

Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.

I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?