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 people so taken up with the prettiness and metaphorical possibilities of their own aphorism, they miss its literal falsehood.
It should not take a visit to the cinema with the lights on, or a fireworks display at midday, to know this not to be true. Now it might be right that doing down your fellow won’t improve your own career prospects — but don’t watch Game of Thrones or work at Barclays if you want to hang onto that idea — but if you want your light to burn brighter, most certainly put all the other lights out. It’s all relative, folks.