Quotes About Comparison

Comparing is impoverishing your own experience

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

The experience she gained should be invaluable to her continued growth and contribution to our team. In reality, compared to American players, she would just be finishing her college career.

Consumers view of you is not about how they compare you to other banks. It's about how they compare you to all of the other businesses they experience.

People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation.

It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.

Success is somebody else's failure.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

Jealous leaders measure their success by the failure of others.

If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure-that you're only as good as your most recent collection.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.

I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.