Quotes About Comparisons

I'm kind of the Robin Lopez Kryptonite, and there's a lot of Robin Lopez Kryptonite in the world.

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons.

her remark would have commanded greater attention had it been generally realized that human beings were only the third most intelligent life form present on the planet Earth

I think comparisons are very on the surface. If I sing, like, 'Park Bench People,' and there's kind of a social undertone, people will say I sound like Gil Scott-Heron. But for me, the more insightful comparison would be a Roberta Flack or Nina Simone - people who really mix different genres of music.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

High Times magazine is a notch intellectually below Highlights for Children. I mean, they're both great to read when you're baked, but come on, ya know.

I try not to make comparisons between who I've coached. And I haven't always coached the best in the world.

Unfulfilled expectations bring unhappiness. Comparisons fill life with meanness. Avoid both to fill life with joyfulness.

In a world of such abundant possibility, many of us simply go limp from indecision. Or we derail our life's journey again and again, backing up to try the doors we neglected on the first round, desperate to get it right this time. Or we become compulsive comparers - always measuring our lives against some other person's life, secretly wondering if we should have taken her path instead.

One of the first thoughts I had, when doing early exoplanet research, was that Earth and its many companions seemed very different from the planetary systems we were detecting.

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

as much as the next man

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Any child who reads widely, often and for pleasure will inevitably make comparisons between what they're reading, why they're reading and how they're reading.

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

it is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!" "What

I don't like to make comparisons between former managers because they all bring a unique style.

I guess you can't really turn a camera on outside in Texas without getting Terrence Malick comparisons.

imposition of European terms and concepts on studies of other societies and the offering of comparisons between those societies which the imposition of the terms concerned made easier.

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.