Quotes About Comparison

I kind of put people from the past up on a pedestal; I don't think, in a lot of ways, that we're at their level.

I wouldn't put myself on the same pedestal as Sarah Lancashire.

I know that I'm probably far more pedestrian and less talented than many who dreamed of becoming writers but couldn't see the road so easily.

It seems like everyone in my peer group has more 'Pokemon' knowledge than I do.

Our operations in China are materially similar to our U.S. peers who also operate and have employees there.

You want to be paid in respect to how your peers are paid.

In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.

All of my peers were becoming bajillionaires. There was no one from college left in the temp force.

I'm no less focused than any of my peers. They live a different life. They go home; they are not pictured at events. I train just as much as them, maybe more.

I have been that actor who's watched peers and thought, 'God, they're doing well. I'll never get there.'

I never liked 'Donnie Darko' quite as much as my film school peers.

I get what it feels like to watch some of your peers pass you in a field that you're in.

Trump needs the media to act the way they do so he can dunk on them and look good by comparison. The media are enjoying the short-term rush of their war with Trump, wearing his abuse as a badge of honor among their peers.

I wasn't mad, but it was maybe a little frustrating sometimes seeing some friends and peers my age do well. Not because I wasn't cheering for them - because I feel like I was as good as them.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

People are so difficult. Give me an elephant any day.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

People say, 'You look like the girl who used to be on that show 'Angel' - they don't actually think I'm her.

Mormonism is not historic Christianity. When people say, 'Well, Mormons and Christians all believe the same things,' my response is, 'If that's true, why are they always on my front doorstep trying to convert me?'

I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

You hear all these people saying, 'Oh, Pep, what a good manager he is.' Forget about it. Cruyff was the best, by far.

My album is better than 'Sgt. Pepper.'