Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours burn any brighter: Difference between revisions

Another one for those so taken with the prettiness and {{t|metaphor}}ical 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 it might be right that doing ''down your fellow won’t improve your own career prospects'' — through try not to watch ''Game of Thrones'' or work at Barclays if you want to hang onto that idea — but if 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.