Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours burn any brighter
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Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours burn any brighter
Another one for those so taken with the prettiness and metaphorical possibilities of their own aphorism, they miss its literal falsehood.
For it should not take a visit to a cinema with the lights on, or a fireworks display at lunchtime, to know this not to be true. Now you might think it right that doing down your fellow won’t improve your own career prospects — through try not to watch Game of Thrones or work in investment banking if you want to hang onto that idea — but if, all other things being equal, you want your own light to burn brighter in the eyes of your superiors, most certainly put a bushel on the lights of others.
It’s all relative, folks.