Quotes About Comparison

Self-love, which concerns itself only with ourselves, is content to satisfy our own needs; but selfishness, which is always comparing self with others, is never satisfied and never can be; for this feeling, which prefers ourselves to others, requires that they should prefer us to themselves, which is impossible.

Endlich werden sie Ihnen sagen, daß die Menschen aller Zeiten einander gleichen, daß sie die nämlichen Tugenden und die nämlichen Laster haben, daß man die Alten nur bewundere, weil sie alt sind. Das ist ebenfalls nicht wahr; denn man that ehedem große Dinge mit kleinen Mitteln und heutiges Tages thut man gerade das Gegentheil.

The people of Ember were just as grubby as the people of Sparks; everyone looked more or less the same.

Eventually, even Mom acknowledged that I'd done all right. "No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.

My daddy is nothing like your daddy! I shouted. When my daddy passes out, he never pisses himself!

If I were ever to go on a trip, I think I should make written notes of the slightest traits of my character before leaving, so that when I returned I would be able to compare what I was and what I had become.

They explain the new by the old—and the old they explain by the older still, like those historians who turn a Lenin into a Russian Robespierre, and a Robespierre into a French Cromwell: when all is said and done, they have never understood anything at all.

I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'

Marists are workers, we do all the work and Jesuits just think about it.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

The admiration of another writer's work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

If you can't keep up, drag them down to your level.

I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.

The other death for an actor is comparing yourself to other people: Forget someone else's path. Concentrate on your path. Otherwise, you get lost, and if you don't have joy in the work, forget it.

I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.

There are far more talented people doing voice work than I.

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

I know I earn less at my primary school than you do, but I don't have to work as hard at my primary school.

I feel very jealous towards women who can say, "I'm going to stay home and be a mom." I wish that's what fulfilled me but I like to work and I have to have something for myself.

We have to work extra hard, because we in America are very ethnocentric--we think our culture is superior. Why's that? It's because we've got moon rocks, and nobody else has moon rocks.

People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.