Quotes About Comparison

It's so hard to compare one organization to another, just because there's a different way of doing things.

We always had power shortages in the country. I was living right next to the border with China, and it was the only country I could compare to my own. When I looked across the river, it was a completely different world - there were no people dying. It looked like a place full of colour, and that's what confused me.

I like to watch the men play. I like the way that they're playing, and I can always learn something from them. They're playing differently than the women, so I like to learn from them as well.

Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?

You start comparing people, and ultimately, somebody feels diminished.

What kind of a dinosaur am I? I guess something like a triceratops. A triceratops is not too dynamic, but has a little strength.

There is always someone in the world who is better or worse off than yourself, and I've never seen that - in either direction - as a barrier to becoming friends with somebody.

It's very clear that Mr. DeSantis is taking a page directly from the campaign manual of Donald Trump.

I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.

Off the pitch, everyone says I and Mario Balotelli look alike, but I don't think so. A fan was waiting for a long time after a game for me. When I came out it turned out he was waiting as he thought I was Mario. He was pretty disappointed!

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

I think my own thinking is harsher than my mom's discipline.

Cycling is unique in that in any other sport I'd be in a different weight category or discipline. What I do is a different sport to what Chris Froome does.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

It is discouraging a little bit to look up at the board and see that we're about 30 points behind our points goal for a competition.

I think all literature should be read as comparative literature. And I think we should write out of what we know, but in the expectation that we can be changed at any moment by something we have yet to discover.

Definitely that's the worst, to discover that something you're doing has already been done.

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

I was a very happy kid. I didn't get new bikes very often. We ate a lot of chicken legs for dinner. But I never felt in want of anything. I wasn't cognizant until much later of the discrepancy between what we had and what other people had.

In the Big Ten, we disliked the SEC because of the success they had.

I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

I never thought I'd be up against Salvador Dali and Roy Disney.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.