Quotes About Comparison

If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.

If people want to compare us to the Shangri-Las, then that's all well and good. But those groups were put together. They were told what to sing, dressed up, neatly packaged. We're like the '80s version in that we're more outgoing, more involved in it.

Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.

The good news is that I've already outlived two Brontes, Keats, and Stephen Crane. The bad news is that I haven't written anything.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'

Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

Overall, there isn't much difference between a high-end Android and iOS phone, despite the fact that Android is a knockoff of iOS.

All you can be judged on is your record - what your record is overall, what your record is in your conference, and what your record is head-to-head matchups with other teams that you play.

I feel like my biggest competition is myself. A lot of kids get caught up in the comparing game - comparing themselves with Michael Jackson, comparing themselves with Michael Jordan. You gotta be your best. You gotta overcome your own fears.

I think Griezmann has all the quality to overcome Thierry Henry, as Mbappe has too.

Overcoming my sister's shadow was the biggest thing I ever tried to do.

I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds' daughter!' And I didn't like it; it made me different from other people, and I wanted to be the same.

Look, I just read out loud for a living. Most of my friends are doctors or lawyers, people I went to university with, they're on the train at 7 A.M. and don't get home until 7 P.M. They work bloody hard, and they're allowed to be overwhelmed. I don't think I'm allowed, really.

Surfing on the Internet is like sex everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more.

As Brown writes: "When our self-worth isn't on the line, we are far more willing to be courageous and risk sharing our raw talents and gifts." One way to embrace creativity, Brown says, is to let go of comparison.

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.

Every guy liked to think that his demons were meaner and crazier than anybody else's.

He doesn't hate you, Thomas, he admires you. And we're often frightened and jealous of what we admire.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.