Horton Foote

My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.

American Playwright

Giambattista Vico

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

Italian Philosopher

Kevin Durand

I think the first villain that I ever played was on 'Stargate'. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.

Canadian Actor

Ivan Lendl

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

Czechoslovakian Athlete

Georg Simmel

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

German Sociologist

Joseph Mitchell

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

American Writer

Frenkie de Jong

If you end up at a superior club, you will play with world-class players all over the pitch.

Dutch Athlete

Edward Young

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

English Poet

Brian O'Driscoll

That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.

Irish Athlete

Confucius

Chinese Philosopher

Use 'superior' in formal or professional contexts to describe something notable or excellent.

Situational Usage

'Superior' indicates comparison, suggesting one thing is better than another.

Comparative Nature

Can imply arrogance when describing people, especially if used without clear context.

Not Always Positive

Refers to someone who oversees others in a job or organization.

Hierarchy Implications

Address or refer to higher-ups respectfully using 'superior' in formal settings.

Respectful Address

A superior's directives are typically expected to be followed by those lower in rank.

Obey the Hierarchy

'Superior' in religious settings is specifically about leadership and guidance.

Religious Context

In monasteries and convents, the 'superior' manages community life.

Communal Living

 emotional sometimes when I talk about you cannot do superior work if you're a different are you gonna it's not the individual photograph it's what you do with it and who you engage with it that makes it powerful well we live in a world where it's easy to say that people don't care anymore it's been proven to me time and again

Proof: The Photographers...

 based on people's behaviors, activity in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and the superior temporal sulcus correlates with perceptions of how frequently those behaviors occur in daily life. In other words, the brain seems to be tracking low-level, statistical properties of behavior

Should you trust your...

 And many of the problems faced by humans in the poems are caused by their hubris, or excessive pride in believing themselves superior to the gods. The desire to please the gods was so great that the Ancient Greeks traditionally welcomed all strangers into their homes with generosity

Everything you need to...

 before you never before or against the struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease now unfortunately it's a disease that has been caught by many of the world's leaders but before you feel superior to george bush before throw a stone ask yourself do you accept this

The moral roots of...

 Joyce came to the truth commission to tell the story of a mother whose child has disappeared she told us that every time the phone rang every time there were footsteps in the corridor every time there was a knock on the door she thought it might be superior but she

Building community in...

 and moved inside the walls surrounding their city and port, now provisioned by a superior fleet and extensive maritime empire. The cramped conditions have taken a toll and a recent plague wiped out a third of the population. But city life goes on.

A day in the life of an...

 that makes me so superior to a dog or a pig, or a chimpanzee. But the truth is that, on the individual level, I'm embarrassingly similar to a chimpanzee. And if you take me and a chimpanzee and put us together on some lonely island,

Why humans run the world...

 Surfers competed and wagered on who could ride the farthest, the fastest, or catch the biggest wave with superior skill, granting respect, social status, and romantic success.

The complicated history...

 but not beyond the grasp of some superior intelligence? Are there things about the universe that are, in principle, ungraspable by any mind, however superior?

Why the universe seems...

 The lionesses have no defence against the males' superior strength.