Quotes About Comparison

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Before you go through with an experience, think about what you expect it to feel like. Once you've experienced it, reflect on whether your expectations differed from reality.

If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.

Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.

Our interest in history always reflects our own times.

I've never really been told my game reflects like I'm from Los Angeles. I'm always told that I have more of an East Coast type game.

The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire... their style flows into me without my intervention, which is what explains the broad range of writers who I've been compared with; it reflects my reading.

I deserved the National Award for 'Border,' but got it for 'Refugee.'

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part!

When you think about it, what's the difference between Bobby Knight and Vince Lombardi? Why is one guy a god, and the other guy is regarded as a crazy man?

Italy should learn from the English system regarding security and civility.

I feel like everyone has been in a bitter situation, regardless whether it's cheating or just not being over someone who is over you - you compare yourself to the next.

All the things that can happen to an artist regardless of how prepared they are and how smart they are and hard-working they are and attractive - doesn't matter. There's always somebody cuter. There just is.

A lot is made of the pink ball. But it is the same really. A good ball is a good ball, regardless of the colour. You might want to bowl a touch fuller with the pink ball when it is nipping around but generally a pink kookaburra behaves the same as a red kookaburra.

I am not a great artist like Maradona was with regards to on-the-field matters.

Paris is different from LA in regards to its historical architecture. I think that's what gives Paris it's charm and beauty.

I just wanted to see China with my own eyes. I wanted to see whether North Korea was the best country in the world or China was the best. I grew up believing that China was much worse than North Kore, because that's what the regime told us.

There was a time in the mid-1950s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academically. Fifty years down the road, and we are almost dead last in the ASEAN region.

I would love it if we made more comparisons between current issues and issues of the past. Maybe we'd realize that sometimes 'current issues' and 'past issues' are one and the same. Our world's people still fight over natural resources, kill in the name of religion, occupy regions and give them up - just as we did 'so long ago.'

The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't.

I certainly have no regret living in the U.S. The quality of life in Australia is good, but it is bloody good here as well.

You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.