Quotes About Comparison

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a little frustrating.

Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

We are living in a world where image is important and we feel the need to confirm to a standard of what beauty is and how beauty should look like. We look at the billboard, and feel something is lacking in us.

I'm pretty sure my expectations are higher than the average person's. It just sets standards.

I set very high standards, normally for myself. For other people, I try to lower my standards.

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

If I body-shame a woman, it is more a reflection of me being critical of my body, me not being able to keep up to certain standards I have, and so making sure that the women around me feel the same way.

The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.

The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

If you don't live up to somebody's standards, you get hammered.

I think that I set such high standards for myself that sometimes I expect other people to live up to these standards, and it's not fair because they're not setting the same goals for themselves.

I look out there, and I see that Floyd Mayweather stands head and shoulders above everyone else. He's another fighter I would like to base myself on because he's got incredible fast hands and feet. He's flashy but, man, is he good.

It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average.

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

'Greenleaf' is nothing like 'Empire.' I think 'Empire' stands alone in what they are doing. It's a wonderful show. The only thing that is similar though is that they are black families - the shows in it of themselves have very different dynamics.

Whenever people hear that Kurt Cobain was a fan of my standup, it's like hearing Jimi Hendrix loved Buddy Hackett or something.

I don't look as handsome in Men in Black II as I did in the first one.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.