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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.
Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.
Like anyone else, I can fall into these massive Instagram holes and start comparing myself to other people.
Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.
I like the look of all-rounder Ben Stokes. I usually have no interest in comparing new players with myself, but there are some interesting parallels here.
I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think it's supposed to be.
There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.
It's impossible to compare two bands. It would be like comparing two lovers.
Comparing between siblings is something I don't like and don't do at all. I don't believe in comparisons. We all have our own journeys and we enjoy each other's success as much as ours.
Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!
A photo app is a utility. It's like comparing 'Twitter' to Microsoft Word. If you want to be an author, you're not always going to constrain yourself to 140 characters.
Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.
It’s not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture.
I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have to compare yourself to the best and feel totally inadequate.
People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.
The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it.
The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.
Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.
Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.
Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
I have long been fond of comparing Workday strategy to the process of sending a rocket to the moon.
Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.
I don't like comparing projects. I find it too difficult because I can't objectively look at a piece when I'm so subjectively involved it.
Radiohead is one of the bands I appreciate. That's a great career band. It's not like critics are comparing us to a flash in the pan.
It's interesting how Obama's adorers in the press keep comparing him to Lincoln and Reagan. Apparently they can't think of a Democrat president worthy of being compared to.
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you have another 'Carrie' to compare it to, it's rough.
We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
On a very technical level, I am a geek who is interested in the intricacy of rhythm playing, so I like comparing and working out its details.
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.
I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.
People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it.
In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.
We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.
Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.
Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.
I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.
If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.
If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in anything, don't listen to mumbo-jumbo rubbish.
If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the worse word.
I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
In one era, it's hard enough to compare people. But comparing people of different eras... that's next to impossible.
I think a lot of people can get wrapped up in comparing themselves. And that's when the tragic downfall comes, because there will always be someone more beautiful.
There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.
Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.
The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.
One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.
That is the thing I want to tell girls, to stop criticising yourselves and to stop comparing yourself to other people.
If I am duly compared to Marlon Brando at all, well, I can only think of The Teahouse of the 'Shanghai Noon,' that they're comparing me to that!
When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.
