Quotes About Comparison

I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

I have worked out that I am living in London on £27 a day while David Cameron is claiming a damn sight more for his big house in Oxford.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

I have worked with so many actors, some have been stars, while at times, I have been at a better standing than them, but it doesn't really matter.

I was always a hard worker, but when I was younger I didn't have to put the extra work in like some of the other guys.

Unfortunately, I'd be put over Ryback because, like, as a better worker, but I'm like, I don't want more of a comparison because I'm wearing a singlet as well, but that's what they went with and a lot of people like that.

In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.

As great as Hulk Hogan was, he still wasn't that great a worker.

Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

It's really incredible to be compared to a player like 'King Pele' who is the King of Football. But what I must think about is working hard and following my own pathway and not thinking about people who compare you to other players.

I was constantly comparing myself to others in my workplace, others in life, others on social media, and I was so focused on others that I fell out of touch with myself.

By the way, if you ever watch Prince Harry on a panel or giving a talk, you can tell that as royals go, he's comparatively normal, and I think that's largely because he had a workplace experience with people with radically different social backgrounds.

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

I'm not going to say I was Britain's greatest ever world champion. I think Joe Calzaghe was the best - although I think I fought a lot better fighters.

It's definitely hard to live up to expectation. Especially early in my career, everyone was expecting so much from me, everyone was comparing me to my father. They didn't understand that they're comparing me to a world champion, which is very unfair as a novice.

You cannot compare warm-ups with World Cup games.

Of all the players at the World Cup I don't think it is too much to compare Ronaldinho with the great Pele.

Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.

Messi is always compared to Maradona, but he needs to win the World Cup because if you don't win the World Cup, you can't be up there with the very best.

You always want to see the best players in action at a World Cup, and the players always want to measure themselves up to the very best.

The only ones who would be happy if Messi doesn't go to the World Cup would be Maradona fans because, that way, they can keep saying that he's the best.

I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.

I'm probably a lot more closer in the 1500m to the world record than I am in the 5000m.