“Certain management policies-stretching of credit resources, for example-may lead to great progress in good conditions; but, like the Grand Prix car in comparison with the Land Rover, they may not be robust enough to survive when the going gets tough.” MayEnoughCertainProgressLandConditionsCarPolicyExampleToughResourcesManagementCreditComparisonStretchingRobustGoing Gets ToughGrand PrixGreat Progress Author:Anthony Stafford Beer
“Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.” PeopleGreaterConditionsHonorCircumstancesPromiseOvercomingMedicalMoodObservationComparisonMentalitySoarYour HonorMedical Conditions Author:Stephen Covey
“There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.” WellsLastsHouseSpeakSoundLandConditionsConversationProsperityEntertainmentAriseMiserableComparisonLimbsDwellingOffendingSpeaking Well Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.” MotherHouseVoiceMemoriesComedyConditionsEqualNormalAchievementMiserableFuelRemarkableComparisonParadoxSentimentalJohnsonDeprivationAdmirerPathosBeckettGilded Author:James Marcus
“Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.” MenChildrenScienceIndividualRaceCasesConditionsStageDevelopmentTestsSpeciesComparisonSavagesAffinityNaturalistEpitome Book:Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages Source: Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages
“I spar with 18-year-old kids that try to kick my ass all the time. As far as going in and doing a wrestling match, I think that pales in comparison, but it's a totally different thing. It's completely different. You have to condition your body.” ThinkingTryingYearsDifferentBodyKidsConditionsYour BodyAssKicksDifferent ThingsComparisonWrestlingPale Author:Bill Goldberg