Quotes About Comparison

I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.

Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.

If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.

And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less capable. They could've been there.

I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

A lot of rappers think they better than me because they saw me broke, going in and out of studios, and couldn't pay for studio time.

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

I think sometimes you can study guys and build them into giants that they are not.

I'm always looking at film, studying myself, comparing and contrasting with film of the great linebackers to see what I need to work on.

You always compare yourself, on the pitch or in general life, and you can always learn. Youve obviously got to do a bit of studying yourself as well.

I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.

People lump us into the nu-metal category, and there might be a hint of that stuff, but if you really listen to a nu-metal band and then listen to Slipknot, it's so apples and oranges that it's retarded.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

With social media, with Instagram and selfies and all these apps that are trying to make you look perfect... it's hard for girls to grow up nowadays with all that stuff.

The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.